Bullet in the brain, go ‘squish’.

And when you open me up
Will you be surprised at the
Utterly
Unremarkable cast of my insides?

Maybe you’ll have thought they’d be black.

But then,
You haven’t known me for
A long time now.

Needle in the haystack, go ‘prick’.

I don’t need to see your insides
To know
Just who you are.

MICHELE L’HEUREUX is mostly glad to have lived to tell the tale.  Her family, and the friends she still has, would probably agree.  She currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.