Carapace


Drawing of red eyes.

“She smiled, rubbed at her nose. He unzipped his black puffer jacket and put it over her shoulders. They were standing very close. She would have lain on the ground and let him walk over her body if he wanted, he knew that.”
- Normal People, Sally Rooney


Take me out my carapace
just to roast me on a stick.
Let me be your crime of passion,
throw my body in a ditch.
Wipe the lipstick off my face,
but leave the bite marks on my neck.
Discard your choice of weapon,
but leave DNA all on your skin.

Claim you never saw it coming,

I must have slipped or tripped.