Tonight's Poet Corner: Needle & Scalpel

Needle & Scalpel
by Belinda Roddie

I will
have my body tattooed,
scarred, reshaped, and reborn
as the phoenix incarnate
that I am meant to be.

And you, who shares my
blood, have absolutely no
fucking say in that
necessary outer transformation
into my true inner image.

It's creepy.

Back off.