Girl in Pieces

by Kathleen Glasgow

Don’t let the cereal eat you. It’s only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.”

Dear Blue, I am my own worst disaster. I did something stupid to someone. I just wanted to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants, and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your very self ? What is going to happen to us, Blue?

“I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be that, ever. Help me not be that and I’ll help you.”