Published on: 10/24/2014
my little shop of horrors

1
what did he want me to do?
if only I'd known
we could have stayed friends

2
he and I we were giggling
and withdrawing—
from what?

3
Uncle Norman was a paedophile
my parents wanted to know:
"did he start on you?"

4
she was naked on the pool table,
said I wouldn't do anything,
"you're such a lying arsehole!"

5
from the moment the condom came off
to the day she said it'd arrived
I sweated shards of glass

6
I was serious about running
but she said there was nothing
to run from