Two Inches
Ophelia
break your teeth
when you bite down
when you slam
into the river bank
break
your overbite
and shatter their
eardrums
with your loud
tuneless voice
drag yourself out
of the water and
into the ambulance
you punch yourself
as the paramedics
tell you to stop
and when they
hold down your arms
you tell them
let go but
no one
is letting
you go
Ophelia break
your grief into
pieces of glass
and chew
like the
two boxes
of pills
don’t swallow,
spit.
