Friday, August 21, 2026

trauma response (self-interrogation)



You say you haven’t fucked like a freak in forever,  
but I think you mean never—  
because what counts  
when you’re barely there?

Even infants suckle:  
the body’s first reflex,  
natural, instinctive,  
seconds out of the womb.

I think you were just a little girl  
rehearsing a movie scene,  
watching from between your mother’s fingers  
as she covered your eyes.

Ta-da—you bowed  
for the applause  
that never came.

Neither did you.  
Everyone else did.

Is that what you haven’t had  
in forever?

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