J.Y. Tan

drug of choice
  

at 2am you begin to lose ur arms & legs
as they float away piecewise
like birds let out of their cage
you like having no body    floating in mid-air
no need for accessorising    no need for breath
when we get to the chorus it’s time
to apologise for a lack of self-control
     limbless child      you fall through people like water
the air’s cold tonight and your windbreaker’s lost
gone with a hurricane        gone with a man
retinas bleached with your mother’s
gaze so you see everything
in technicolour       in the shade of fear
you only want a way to forget      
and that is still too much to ask for

J.Y. Tan is a student from Singapore. Her work appears in Salamander, Lunch Ticket and Rust + Moth among other journals. In her free time, she enjoys playing the guitar and bass. Visit her at jytan.carrd.co.