she drinks to the image I have of myself as a naked man on roller skates who continues to have the fistfight he’s late for. she drinks to toast the pain she says she stole from a pregnant unicorn during a longer than usual drought of immersion. people keep us together because they are bored. when sober, she returns to them the delirious boy who on his bedsore back carried a pair of skis throughout the only entire summer of his youth. from her father’s memory she eats for the both of us without touching her food because her mother was the bulimic god could taste.