Scarlet Pantomime

Demented Love Songs. Sick girls and lost boys. Drop me a line at [email protected]

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It's my 14 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Night train, silver moon

You ask me why I'm flying

To float on ashen wing

To choke on dust and feather

Oh moon, you are a liar

It's right we should pretend

And lie with one another

It's right we should be twins

For I have loved no other

— Beggar’s Blues, by Mark Lanegan

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Spring invaded my vision, fleshy red blooms diffusing behind my eyelids like daybreak. I don’t remember the last time it touched our spectral borders. A red band of light glittering across a blue horizon as deep as mourning.

A toothache lingers dully, smoldering through the roof of my mouth.

I am crazed with longing. My tombs ache with it. I have skinned my knees stumbling on the broken sidewalk outside of your apartment. I have touched the wounds to your sheets. Cracks explode across the concrete in startled relief. You press your fingers into my mouth and tell god how much you want me.

I have never been able to discern the difference between need and desire. It all burns the same to me.

📸 by Edward Steichen, early 1900s

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I started writing you a letter but it turned into a poem about god and lemons

What was the message the Mormon missionaries shared with you over cold coffee and prepackaged baked goods? What is the cosmology of a god worshipped by men who subjugate their wives? Did you tell them my god is a lemon grove in late January, enveloping me in the mellow warmth of a California winter? A lemon rolling across the soft earth, its peel as thick as leather, tawny golden flesh reminiscent of the sun within. My god is a summer of plenty. My god is rich soil under bare feet. My god is my daughters. My god is me. There are no fathers, no kings. It is just you and I and sunlight and memory.

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Admin post felt cute might delete later

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Spooky sleepy binch #ghost

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The English Patient (1996) dir. by Anthony Minghella

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One of my favorite films

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The Jacaranda Sings for You

I shivered out of my bones

My skin made love to a song

They played nice for a while but then it ended like in does on a country song

One betrayed the other

My skin crawled down a wormhole

Became the king of moist earth and sightless things

(They eat the tender shoots of roots and kill me)

My bones were destitute

I had a ring that slipped from my finger bones into a drainage ditch and ended up in the realm of an aquatic saint who had your stormy eyes that had been punched out by syphilis and Molly and fever dreams

I tried to find my flesh but it had rotted beneath the jacaranda tree

My bones cried a perfect aching song as the wind swept through my empty rib cage

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What you see before you die

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