when you were a little girl you were stung by a wasp and the skin on your arm puffed up and went red yet you so loved that wasp and all of his brothers that you brought the whole damn angry hive into your right into your bed as a child you were riddled with ringworm so your father cut them out of your skin then you felt so alone and remorseful you tracked each little worm down and put them back in have you ever tried to neck with an earwig oh your body is a home to your friends you ve a tick for each nipple and a leech for each finger and a parasitic love that never ends do you have any love left for me i m small but that s a start eat me up with your love burrow your way to my heart do you have any love left for me i m small that s a start eat me up with your love please burrow your way to my heart