You Didn't Know

Did you know
that I have legs and they
are covered all in little
scars that I don't know
or care where they came from?

And my hands are
just the same I am looking
all unbroken skin so soft
so smooth but the scarring
I can see

Everyone has their favorite
stories favorite body stories
and mine I could tell you
over and over

When I cried for Pablo Neruda
and did a power slide
in a skirt a mistake because
the material didn't cover
now running down my shin three inches
of skin too dark

When I went to my eval
first eval I actually attended
and I wore my slippers slipped
on the steps my poor right hand
it looks like the bat signal
broke my favorite ring too

My favorite little thing no idea
where you popped in
just 3/8ths of an inch crossing
the first knuckle indexed my left
hand and I don't know
but I stare at you and wonder

So I think back to your body stories
and all the little things
I knew how much pepper
to put in your eggs or else you
wouldn't like them but you
never even knew how I took
my tea a mistake you
should've asked oh why darling
why is it you didn't know