very serious

mantis / poet, artist, angel / my new book, “Safety in Structure” available on Amazon https://a.co/d/0lvv19o

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About You …

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for J

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“Vampiric”

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I’ve chewed up and spit out every word in my lexicon that whispers i love you. You speak in unknown languages, the top of your lungs, i’m desperate for translation. But desperation only leads to catastrophic miscommunications, an unintentional destruction of our smiling faces.

I never meant to make you stray. Please stay.

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~~excerpt from Mantis Lux’s “Safety In Structure”

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i am a vessel of half-spoken prayers, a broken cup still warm with faith.

the mirror mouths my name in a language made of water, and i almost understand.

somewhere, a candle refuses to end. its smoke climbs like handwriting, drawing elegies across my ribs.

i taste the burn of my own making, the soft ruin that becomes renewal.

i keep the ashes under my tongue, roll them like seeds, each one whispering the body's secret hunger.

my breath is a hymn to undoing, a song for what survives the fall.

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Vessel (2025)

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With weights to your feet, you’ll fall fast and then sleep, quicker than each heart beat.

Just let go, Just leap.

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which way out

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ballroom

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[paper-wounds]

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Remove them. Your fangs are out of style.

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I have to leave this place.

I have stained all surfaces

I have made all markings.

So I will forever be here — there,

in one way or another.

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It’s just a silly phase i’m going through.

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Excerpt from - Hunger (2025)

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You Used To

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You know i’m better than anyone else —

[dtwoff-deactivated20260402]

Okay guys it's November we need to become serious people again and start listening to Leonard Cohen every day

[savememantis]

Always