Slasher

Mom makes him say sorry.

I tell him

it’s okay.

I don’t mind,

but it is not

and I do.

Want to cut something

with a grunt,

grab my pen,

slice words into my diary,

press so hard they are engraved

on a week’s worth of days.

The text of the poem is within this image. The cover of a diary with an open clasp. ‘One Year Diary’ is on the bottom. ‘I Will Be Thin’ is etched above it.