This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

I think of all the parts of me that won’t easily burn.

“The problem with most people is they think about what something will cost them,” the shopkeeper says. “They don’t consider what their purchase will offer them in return.”

Is that what we become? I wondered to myself. Useless vegetation that would rot if we didn’t have others to tend to us?

But then I remember that the worst thing a person can do to you after they’ve hurt you is let you live.

That’s how you truly and unmistakably destroy another human being

I tell her it’s only natural to hurt the things we love the most.