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 /
The Homewrecker’s IKEA Bed
