she clutches her body a frayed rag and she remembers his ragweed teeth the bobbles in his ears- skin stretching like fabric on a loom. there are no tears anymore just a quiet knowing like the sad eyes of a cow off to the slaughter house and carcasses hang in strips a ****** mouth torn open in a grin and the hard glinting metal of a knife flaying open skin. her skin, her legs like wishbones, cracking apart, thrusted in obtuse angles a conveyor belt life of sludge and consumption