#9-3-24

[halloweenvalentine1997]

chandelier skirt

moonlit, water-laden limelight

pearls

swine

sour apple whiskey

clavicle scars

headlights deer

a chapel with no god

Sunday morning choir dirge

lined up like nuns who sing clamorous hymns

turning my godless brain

to white noise

stiff lace itches

I want to drink heavily

cause a scene during the service

Run to

ghost towns

sinful theaters

an unholy black house

I am prey

where they pray

Lists of rules nailed to walls

crucifix trembling

above the cot

I sleep on

in shadows of death

by Darla Cathilde Cutherford

[empireprep]

I'm so proud to think of how awesome the version of me that started this blog would think current me is.

[halloweenvalentine1997]

Feeling the warm gun / on the beach inhaling bleach and salt / a charm of melted plastic / a saint fallen from an altar / caressed by ocean tide

Existence like a shipwreck / 1,000 reasons to disintegrate in Santa Ana winds / mind forever numb / toxic angel dust / neon harlot with a gun / waiting to confront you outside your apartment / sick obsession is a weapon / like a bullet or a vampire fang / a war starts with a spark

I strangle you / cut off your voice / snake of wire / choking you / turning you blue / in sand under a red moon / a silent, scarlet siren

by Vivica Salem