Parasitic Lovers Katie “Kit” Gorton

PARASITIC LOVERS

Katie “Kit” Gorton

My neck aches, and my mother’s tugs pain My scalp, as I sit on the floor below her. Even though I sit in subtle agony, She has only been brushing for thirty minutes, And we cannot quit until they are gone.

The comb breaks the hold of the eggs on my hair, Tearing every last parasite from its source of life. My heat was their hearth, My blood, their meal, But they did not feast on blood alone.

You two were found joined together. Two lovers becoming one Reaching for each other’s embrace As the world around you was covered With a canopy of chemicals.

How many children did you lose? And when you drank my blood, what did you gain? What love poem did you steal from my head? Which romantic subplot have you taken? And will I ever be able to love with the passion Stolen and used By two lice?

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