The starborne daughter
Strings Barbies up in lines
And presses the rolls of skin
Into the mirror image liar
Until she can no longer breathe.
Take this unbroken piece of glass
And do with it what your dangerous mind wills
Because there is no one stopping you here
It’s dark.
She’s not glittering anymore.
White teeth, pale face,
I am porcelain. I am
Plastic and crushed under
Fingerprinted heartache catastrophes
And they stuck me in a shop window
The glass steams over with my breath until
All the people are smears of undoing
The lights go out
The closed sign blinks
blinks
burns out
My stomach growls.
