Tag: poetry

Nice Girls Don’t Bleed

burst blood vessel in eye

I have shed blood enough to soak this dark soil four feet deep I have shed skin enough to fill a bathtub until it overflows and drips and covers the bathroom floor in an ooze of epidermals Enough of my hair fell and balled into the carpet to weave a carpet of its own I have thrown up enough to know the taste and smell of my insides should they ever reach me again Enough! Such horror Such thoughts Should be banished from the eyes and thoughts of a nice girl like me But I have seen blood be thrown...

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Underwater Lament

coral

One day when we are all living under the ocean in coral houses because the air above cannot be breathed and we have mutated to grow gills and webbed hands and webbed feet and we fill our bellies with seaweed and shellfish and tell stories to our scaly children about how their ancestors breathed air and lived on land and even used fire to cook maybe then we will realise

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