RELATIONSHIP Poem: Skeletal Truth, by Elena Unger

If you fuck me and leave me,
all you will be leaving is my body—
bare skin, glistening wet,
bone bundled in nerve,
knots of a spine that curve
like a cupped hand, fingers
grasping at air.

If you love me and leave me,
you will be leaving all of me—
soft words, citrus smiles,
emotional torment, and
hope-penned fictions. All
my courage to share
that strangeness,

and all that strangeness
given back.

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