Other Half
Find you a murderer who knows what a good backroad is.
Find you a murderer who respects you.
Find you a murderer who doesn’t give you a numerical victim rating
just appreciates the experience of ending you.
Find you a murderer who doesn’t make you apologize for existing,
for your shape taking up too much or too little space.
Find you a murderer who looks you in the eye when he stabs you.
Find you a murderer who leaves your body somewhere peaceful
(cheek against the gritty earth or a maple leaf, arm embedded in a wheel rut)
Better than filing a polite office death day after day,
returning unseen ad nauseam.