Auzin
NEW ANIMAL
If you want a new animal,
You know where to birth one.
You can have back the bond
I’ll cut out my navel and mail you the bloody stump since
I know childhood mementos mean so much to you.
Here, it’s the last vestige of our connection, take it!
You can pretend it belongs to that other girl, the one you wanted.
I know she is out there somewhere smiling
(with long hair and short fingernails
tasteful jewelry and no tattoos)
I could go on about what she looks like or sounds like but the point is,
You can take me back to the shelter now
(your perfect home will return to splendor)
Pick up something soft and fluffy, someone easy to hold close
And if I am difficult to love, it is because you told me that I am.
There are reasons for all of my frailties and foibles
There are so many selves under this skin
Creatures inside me that I have created
If the truth scares you, it scares me too:
I am the kind of beast which leaves claw-marks on this world.