we are alike

We’re alike, you and I,
Wounded and
Forever obliged
To semen and icy wombs

Not things in themselves
Not observables,
Nonentities.

We’re the skin they peel off their faces in their sleep,
crumbling to dust on their beds,
dead grey flecks on their white white sheets.

We’re the fat bleeding cunts above
their cheap stillettoed feet.
Our mouths towards the pavement
menstruating obscenities.

We’re their thoughts when they fuck,
turning against them, shriveling their cocks
We are lies piled thick atop one another,
viscous like ky jelly
We are their shame when they get raped.
The palsied children in their bellies.

We’re alike, you and I,
Wounded and
Forever obliged