Be-Back-Soon

Content notification: Sexual assault and eating disorders Mermaid Bones - a beat poem. I'm hiding an ocean of teeth under my scales it's in the forbidden taste of salt on my tongue the weight of the measuring tape, of those numbers pushing bubbles through my blood and through my gums. It's written on the circumference of my waist. In the words cursing the ghost ship of my shape being plundered against my will. It's spoken by the fish telling me that I have no right to fill my gills with oxygen underneath a sea bed of regret laid heavy with the shape of a tail. You are a whale they said and they made me push my bones out to see the fish bo