![By Viviane Sassen](https://theoffingmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/3791467919_f123ab9bd6_o.jpg)
how he bends the wrist almost until it snaps
and the fist gives into opening
so that the pills spill and scatter
like a strand of pearls
pulled off a neck in haste —
this is how desperately he wanted me
to live: like a man dying to see me
naked, no embellishment