[system shutdown #678] i have
reflective eyes like glass-
think you can see yourself in me now?
mechanical fingers that
don't even know how
so i wrap them around and
you breathe when i can't-
the night is level with day
and Saturn's rings are unwinding.
violation where there
was no warning sign, so i guess
i can't complain-
i don't
complain.
my voice is lost between your hands,
static violence where my mind used to be,
i wanted you
but not like this,
not
like
this.
can you replace a heart made of metal,
can you cut away the pieces you've consumed,
can you just get
out
of me
now?
silence where screams died out
and bleeding gashes you'd never even know
you'd cut into me-
system shutdown #679: this night
did not
exist.
break me off a piece of me,
you know how i taste and where i go
because you're the one that hollowed
this thing called my soul.

oh, and
by
the
way
i still haven't breathed
since that day.

(2003)