Salted Cut

by line dry only

I've been stolen

goodbye deserved credit
for the part I played
in our comedically romantic
tragically
expansively
useful entanglement

with satirical cousins
ironic fathers
and natural grassroots
(and baby, you've got male)

you've thrown me away
a used fast food napkin
soiled, cheap, made out of brown recyclable parts
trying to be pretty

but I'm one use only
and can't be washed
because I fall apart
when you try

look at all the
soapy dishwater
I've soaked out
of you