ALEX GARZA
The Crushed Ice That Lingers In My Head
i sink into this abysmal nightmare
where a pencil erases my skin
and a sponge wipes away my memory
this world is like a dagger
that stabs at me and bleeds me
draining me of myself
so cold I have turned
my brain and my heart turned solid
diving into subarctic temperatures
my soul has turned to ice
and the world continues to stab
with the pick and the never-dulling blade
I am being crushed into oblivion
and melted away into the darkened sea
and I will never have even existed.