OUR BROKEN LADY // MEGAN E. SMITH

If I'm the laceration,
if I'm less than you
we're broke.
Once you see that
this raw affliction sparks more
attention than your hips,
stand at my back.
I'll trade you for an apparition.
I'm afraid that you meant we were star-crossed
When I'd shed you in less than a year.
I want to think you don't want this.
Let's settle our affair
and take a switchblade to our immortality.
When I die alone
don't raise your fucking cup.



Megan E. Smith is a sophomore English major. Her dependency on coffee and Rumiko Takahashi's manga increases daily.