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Anorexic
"Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.
Yes I am torching her curves and paps and wiles. They scorch in my self denials.
How she meshed my head in the half-truths of her fevers
Till I renounced milk and honey and the taste of lunch.
I vomited her hungers. Now the bitch is burning.
I am starved and curveless. I am skin and bone. She has learned her lesson.
Thin as a rib I turn in sleep. My dreams probe
A claustrophobia, A sensuous enclosure. How warm it was and wide
Once by a warm drum, once by the song of his breath and in his sleeping side.
Only a little more, only a few more days sinless, foodless,
I will slip back into him again as if I had never been away.
Caged so I will grow angular and holy,
Past pain, keeping his heart such company
As will make me forget in a small space the fall
Into forked dark, into python needs heaving to hips and breasts and lips and heat and sweat and fat and greed."
Anorexic
"Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.
Yes I am torching her curves and paps and wiles. They scorch in my self denials.
How she meshed my head in the half-truths of her fevers
Till I renounced milk and honey and the taste of lunch.
I vomited her hungers. Now the bitch is burning.
I am starved and curveless. I am skin and bone. She has learned her lesson.
Thin as a rib I turn in sleep. My dreams probe
A claustrophobia, A sensuous enclosure. How warm it was and wide
Once by a warm drum, once by the song of his breath and in his sleeping side.
Only a little more, only a few more days sinless, foodless,
I will slip back into him again as if I had never been away.
Caged so I will grow angular and holy,
Past pain, keeping his heart such company
As will make me forget in a small space the fall
Into forked dark, into python needs heaving to hips and breasts and lips and heat and sweat and fat and greed."