first he said
take away her hands
she is a girl
she doesn't need hands.
I will make something pretty from her metacarpal bones
a pen, maybe
or the handle of a dagger

then he said
take out her eyes
she is a girl
she doesn't need eyes to have babies with.
I will keep them
use them as marbles, or ornaments

then he said
take away her spinal cord
she is a girl
she does not need this
serpent of nerves and bone
not like I need it
as a symbol of strength and power

then he said
strip away her neocortex
she is a girl
she doesn't need thoughts, or reason
she can have her babies without those.

then he looks at me
says I am too angry, hypersensitive

because I bleed when they take these things from me

because I am dead