let’s leave it like this then. let’s leave it crippled, hobbled without crutches. let’s leave with its back broken and twitching on the floor. let’s leave it licking up dust bunnies and fingering the floorboards. let’s leave it naked and grimy and unclean for days. let’s leave it shivering and thirsty and blinded. let’s just leave it wretched but not yet dead. let’s just leave it alone.