Half-man

 i am now only my abridged self,

shoehorning the parts of me you didn't want

back under my ribcage,

drinking down the slurry of my curdled heartbreak,

i return to sobbing in the shower,

to filing down all my edges

to being alone in every room.

i watch as the fantasy you created about my visage

peels away from my skin

like old wallpaper yellowed with nicotine.

And i fill my bisected lungs with truncated breath

and exhale abbreviated laughter.

Finding out your love had seams

tore me asunder.