i was drinking orange ****** ***** with Kitty the mushroom cloud destroyer, my compatriot, my downfall the sky was purple and the grass was red and we plotted the end of the world we fought for dominance i lost sat on my street corner stealing kisses from passersby like a magpie, plucking the shiny buttons off coats. when I became the queen of sheba, decked to the nines in brass buttons confiscated corroded combustible i rode an elephant called shiva the destroyer and sliced long cuts with a sword into my legs and the white scars were like hope. i played backgammon and chess with multiple lovers and they all lost because i was an impenetrable fortress. I wore the red crown and stabbed out their hearts with my pointed teeth. then i sat upon the edge of the world alone, tore out the cores of a million and four sunflowers and watched all of the people riding trains and walking in the parks holding the hand of someone else someone who isn’t cold Kitty as the violet sun began to set i dreamed of what someone else’s hand bones skin muscle corpulent sinew warmth and I slept like an obsidian stone.