MEMOIR (9)

there’s a duct taped page in which you have given yourself a           mastectomy
you have done it in the bathroom with a pair of chopsticks
because you were in japan & that's all you had      to cut                      you tried
to do this with respect never leaving the sticks straight up
it was not a funeral but a cutting
watch your breast laughing at you in the base housing sink                   be(cause)
he will never notice you have removed yourself
he will never notice you have                                              given him all your milk