Objectified

and paid for--

denied my humanity

with that clause

in tiny print:

"Just a fantasy, okay?"

I-am-just-for-funsies

me

so tell me

how much fun it was

to label me as troubled as

you poked at me with truant verbs

ad hoc hornimen

I am not here to pleasure you

I'm barely here at all

and now

I'm so bare it frightens me

opening the cage

to change

the news

as if a fresher date

might make it all okay again,

I am the bird that flew away

but at the very least you say:

"At last the cage is cleaner now"

I wonder how you sleep...