lithe elf-prince wrote in sky blue ink today -

I'd love him for it

if it weren't for my safety-pinned wrist.

x

blueblack silk and tawny suede coloration,

and flawless: eyelashes parallel

on high bones, to compulsive

(obsessive) standards -

x

(but) my rouge-on-anemiapale

scratchings are surely not parallel;

surely I'm too insulated

(staple lips and styrofoam to taste) by this mindstate

of chewing on asbestos

and wrapped in fibrous blankets;

I find I can't catch fire

any longer.