oh girl submerge yourself when you’re in hot water

go deeper to feel yourself somersault like a redback spider

into the mouth of your lover or anyone’s mouth

that will have you consume you use you up

so at the end of it you know you were worth something


carry around the carcasses you’ve shed to be this red

new you and hold them out like captives like candies like

glass figurines and say look who i used to be i was small

then and small now but i must’ve gotten bigger because i got out