Acupuncture Adventure

She did warn me:

it might make it worse

for a little bit

And in my head I laughed and thought

yeah, right

like there’s a worse

.

and 9 hours later

I want to rip

the skin off my bones

and cut away the muscle

and the fat

and the meat

.

until there’s nothing left

because surely

my bare empty chalk

of skeleton

would ache less

.

than what she left

when she pulled

those pins

from out of my

wounded

weary

flesh

.

if only it was worth

those 15 measly 

minutes

of soft

silky

sultry

almost

pain

free

steps

back

to the way

things are

now.

.

She warned me.