I was born hesitant  /  but I’m a wolf now  /  like my father  /  I can smell out the throat  /  from miles away  /  you know  /  like how you can smell a Chili’s  /  right off the highway  /  when I was little  /  I ate raw steak at Chili’s  /  is that normal  /  when I was older  /  I ate three children  and a wife  /  because I wanted to taste the husband  /  is that normal  / anyway  /  it was easy  /  I was so goddamn beautiful he fucked me  /  in his daughter’s pastel  /  IKEA bed  /  at eighteen! and after  /  when I looked in the mirror  /  I thought  /    whose waist is this on my hips  /  whose scent is this on the bedsheets /  and he’d beg  /  please don’t  /  but for a whole year  /  his hands  /  and my neck  /  and their house  /  smelled like Marc Jacobs Daisy  /   he loved me  /  he loved it  /  scented  /  filthy  /  she burned those bedsheets  /  the whole house  /  maybe  /  my shadow is as long as the flames are  /  behind me  /  searing the ends  /  to keep them from raveling  /  what does it matter!  /  I’ve worn Aviators over my swan face   /  every  junk  /  day  / since  /