Consume and demand.

Let's compare scars

I can pin yours on my lapel for all 
the world to see.

A diamond mine, an empty cart, a finger 
to the spindle.

Sharpened hat-pins and dusty rib-bones,

pockets laden with rocky lead,

Narcissus in the river.

Perhaps we'll peel the skin back

and expose what lies beneath

Ruddy train wrecks

Bloody track marks

A triumph! A glory!

An empty joyless trophy

A toothless hollow smile

An ugly second face.

Paint me on your drapery,

cupped in the cool of a porcelain hand.

A ventriloquist's puppet,

A collapsed flame.

Wooden legs in rubber ribbons.

soft hearts bound with electrical tape,

tapping softly against the drain.

I keep waiting to dissolve.