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[prodigalspawn]

[prodigalspawn]

Frank Bidart, from “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky”; Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

[arylleth]

Diluite me, I tell them. Make me easier to love.

[prodigalspawn]

Forgive me, Father.

[rollercoasterwords]

i'm literally the priest's favorite sacrificial lamb because i am so docile and sweet and i hold very still when they put the rope around my neck and i trot along so happily while they lead me to the altar and they do not even have to tie me down because i lie so very still and only bleat once or twice in my lovely lamb voice and when the knife comes down it cuts through me like butter and i offer no resistance and i bleed so prettily all over my new white wool and my guts all unspool like the most beautiful shining yarn and my eyes are animal and dumb and hold no accusation and every time i die i come right back as another little lamb because the priest loves me so so much and he always chooses me for the sacrifice every time and he always places one hand on my small and twitching nose to calm me while he lifts the knife and he doesn't do it for the other lambs only me because i'm his favorite

[seemeunseelie]

The Crucible (1953) by Arthur Miller | The Sacrificial Lamb (c. 1670) by Josefa de Ayala | And My Father’s Love Was Nothing Next To God’s Will (2021) by Amatullah Bourdon | The Holy Terror (2000) by Robert Shearman | Saturn Devouring His Son (c. 1820) by Francisco Goya | Ptolemaea (2022) by Ethel Cain | Devil Carves a Child (1907) by Jaroslav Panuška | The Lamb (1789) by William Blake | The Sacrifice of Isaac (c. 1616) by Pedro Orrente | The Anecdote of the Pig (2021) by Tory Adkisson | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012) by Benjamin Alire Sáenz | all others from Baldur’s Gate III (2023) by Larian Studios |