china doll zara khan

CHINA DOLL

ART by CELINE JEONG WORDS by ZARA KHAN

Here are my limbs, like a china doll’s I snap them off and watch them split, no blood to ooze, just cool hard flesh.

Here are my guts, like Gordian Knots, so tightly tangled, I’ll grab a blade and slice right through.

Look at me. What a mess. No one knows the sight of me. I look for my face in mangled bones, and stitch my guts together. Take that rusting blood of mine; scorch it into iron. Hold on to my searing pain, and snap my limbs together, Watch the life pulse through my veins and carve my face from iron.

Here’s my face, just like a gorgon’s, take a look, I dare you. Medusa-eyed and silver skinned, the sight of me, all mangled. With slit for mouth and fang for teeth, I’m no china doll. x