i can adjust to most of the awful things 
of life today
they say you can get used to anything,
people get used to hunger, people get used
to war,
yet suddenly, how long has it been, 
memory falters,
everything's out of the ordinary,
all i can think, i can't fathom,
the anxiety,
how deep gone i could be,
without the first and final layer of self,
without my skin.