As a child I was taught that my body was not
My own that it belonged
to the Church …
Tag: objectification
China doll
Layers, layers, layers / He peeled me raw / I’m a mannequin breath / Held hostage…
Four Pink Songs
Watered down ideas spilled onto teen mags / Leaving incomplete marks left to dry alongside impossible contortions of bodies…
You’re Nothing More Than the Spokes on a Wheel I Call Moving Forward
And I see you/Through computer screens, windows, puddles on the street/But to you I am only a black carpet/Where your fist was now there is a hole in my softy bits/The riddle my clockwork is trying to solve/My trust crucified, fingernails on chalkboards, rusty hands…
luncheon
a girl / or woman / searches / for dreams like pennies / in a pool of water…
Lolita, or the death of Nabokov
Nubile young flesh splashed onto a photograph as he stood mouth agape / Hips too young to be looked at but eyes knowing something of fear…
