*
I stood in front of the mirror today
stood and sexualized
myself
didn’t even see me there
someone else stood instead
a woman without a core
there stood perky breasts
bubble butt smooth
hairless skin
no one beneath
it felt good to objectify
an empty shell
with sweet-ass legs
to stand in the reflection
of a skin-like void
*
staring at the pruney fingertips
looking for my pattern
under the clotted blood there
are only the lives unlived
