a poem I wrote on new year's

I can feel the inside of my skin

dark and slimy wet velvet

opaque and shiny

it absorbs

digests

erases

my organs shine like mirrors

reflecting themselves into infinity

sparkling in the darkness

cold, and hard, and hollow.

I fit together like a puzzle,

nesting inside myself,

tongue and groove.

you'd never know by looking at me,

but if you pull my string,

I'll smile and hum

you'd never know

I've got diamonds in my toes.