The Long Goodbye.

She stripped down to her bones
 folded her porcelain limbs
 and prayed

 but without her tendons
 there was nothing to keep her lungs in place

breath
after ragged
breath

while

 the poor thing
 poured herself out
 like water
 bones out of joint and
 a heart melted
   like an ikea candle (12 for a dollar) within her breast

She should have known
but she tried
and when her bones clattered in a pile she knew
that the worst was over.