I look down at my hands

and don't recognize them.

Ever since you started me clipping them,

my nails seem a little strange to me.

For all those years I'd always bitten them off.

I clip them close now, so they look like yours

but they grow fast,

while yours don't. Are we so unsuitable?

Is there nothing I can do to prune myself?

To grow something else?

To heal our rift?

Or change your mind?

Or should I forget you and

go back to biting?

Though there's one other thing I've noticed:

we both pick our noses.