We
Me
Had I been two or three
You would have unfolded me
In your cynosure...

You
Me
Misconstrued vanity
Shona
Yet I keep waiting
Beneath the erring sea.

Mouth in a fish tank
I can't choose not to breathe.

The myth of bound feet
Or tempting saffron.

I bloat to fill up
Gas chambers
And bone-china cups

The world shrinks.

Birth...
Never knew you caused
So much pain
I AM NO WOMAN!
Yet each time you are born
I sink
I live
Each time
Knowing one day
Ill die
In childbirth

I slash at ghost wrists
Memory bleeds
You stick like glue.

I scored a foul
Long ago
And the ball hit my head...

You pin me down, still
And resistance flees
Like turtles on the receding wave

Someday maybe
Nut-like Ill crack
Sideways
Opening up to let you leave.

They walled you in Sia.
A billiard ball
I miss the nets
I roll off tables.

They covered you in scorn Sia.
Jack's giant cut his beanstalk
He let his house crumble
He ate the little boy.

They blinded your nipples Sia.
I saw you only briefly
In the bleeding rainbow
Yet yesterday
I tasted milk on my tongue.

A scream tries to flee.
My dewdrops torn in two
The Karma in you
Snakes keep me in check.
Brown blood
A grasshopper army
A decayed tooth...
Loves expensive
And I paid you in screams.

I try seeping through you Sia
I fail.
Ah Sia! You remain glued
So effortlessly,
Scattered across ceilings— I.
Bits even escape through the ventilator
To reach you Sia
Among bodies carved in bronze
You live in navels.
Plasters peel.
HOO LI YA
Am letting you go Sia
In handfuls of flakes.