BLUBBER

You went and caught a whale for me

Seven hundred days at sea

You cut him up in chunks

real neat

Turned him into kerosene

You said it was a present

You told me

to close my eyes

You tied me to a metal chair

And opened up

my thighs.

You rubbed me down in Vaseline

and pressed your body

up

against

me

You soaked me down

in gasoline

Lit me up

And then discarded me.

You said you’d always love me

from my

head

to my

toes

And then

All at once

you loved me to a little death.