Offred

• thought must be...

  rationed
• I never looked good in...

  red. it's not my colour
• how I used to despise...

  such talk. now I long for it
• what I felt towards them is...

  blankness
• this makes it bearable. ...

  one detaches oneself. one describes.
• we are two legged wombs that's all; ...

  sacred vessels ambulatory chalices
• these bodies hanging on the wall are ...

  time travellers, anachronisms. they've come here from the past
• we are for...

  breeding purposes
• childish allure of...

  dressing up
• where the tattoo is, ...

  a braille he can read, a cattle brand
• I lie there like ...

  a dead bird
• I would like to be _ ... I would like to be _.

  I would like to be ignorant ... I would like to be shameless
• I'll _, I'll _, I'll _, I'll _.

  I'll sacrifice, I'll repent, I'll abdicate, I'll renounce.
• faith is only...

  a word, embroidered
• my ancestress, ...

  my double
• so, I step up, ...

  into the darkness within; or else the light
• Every month there is a ...

  moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen