You Would Too
by Skye Robinson
Runestone, volume 11
Oh I would absolutely kill a pig
If I were famished
Ask my farming friends
Between which vertebrae I should aim
My knife, counting knuckles back
From the strong skullbase
Far behind her clear dark eyes
I know she would be brighter
Than my dog
Eyes slits of extended canine behind
Us. I would think if I had raised her
I would recall her life and after
I’d most likely vomit
The first time
And not sleep that night
But I know as I imagine
That we are bloody things
And though perhaps not
Always indulged
We all have murderous hands
Grafted to us by birth
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Skye Robinson
Brown University
Skye Robinson is a writer based out of Brooklyn, New York. Skye is a senior double concentrating in comparative literature and iInternational and public affairs at Brown University, and is interested in exploring the space between community and the self in her writing. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Lyric Magazine, INTI Revista de literatura hispánica y transatlántica, The Round Magazine and Contemporary Verse 2.