Cigarettes and Blood Lust
Actors in a show
Rip open my ribs.
RIP OPEN MY RIBS!
I dare you to crack open my bones and plunge dirty nails
Into the maw of my chest,
Pluck out the still-beating organ there
And dine on my sour misery.
.
Split me open and bleed me dry.
Rip out my veins and ravage the unholy cavities
Filling my chest with air bubbles.
Kiss me like a biblical angel
And puff smoke into my lungs until I
Am a rampant grassfire burning, burning, burning.
.
Here, pluck the bone straight from my chest,
And run your sinning tongue
Across the smooth white plain
While I float far, far away on the cresting waves of sedation,
Dreaming in black and white
About the bloody, neon lights twinkling down the highway.
.
I am an attractive disaster,
The kind that doesn't bleed or scream.
I happen slow enough that you can settle
Into the rhythm of my demise.
I am an attractive disaster
And the world has come to see.
.
So, pull open my shirt and rip open my ribcage.
At least give the world a jolly good show.
Dip your hands into the cavity of my being,
Hold my heart in your hands.
Remember that I am only an attractive disaster
And give them the show they wish to see.
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Part two of the "Cigarettes and..." Series. The first one roughly in line with this is above.
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Silver Daux
Shadowed souls, cursed magic, poetry that tangles itself in your soul and yanks out the ugly darkness from within. Maybe there's something broken in me, but it's in you too.
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Comments (13)
Uniquely vivid imagery. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Well done.
An attractive disaster, WOW...So many lines that rose off the page. Incredible work, top story doesn't seem to be enough. This would be a great entry in a series of short stories
Amazingly poignant poem. Congratulations on the Top Story.
Stunningly graphic and profound!
Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Somehow that last stanza just made me feel so much sadness.
Felt like I was diving into the start of a graphic novel. Very intense and uncensored the way it should be.
Fantastic emotional, gore-filled piece!! I love exploring those dark worlds Actually I think Vocal is going through a splatterpunk phase after my body horror TS a few days ago... https://shopping-feedback.today/horror/viscera%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E 🩸🫀🫁👹
Raw, intense, powerful, horrific. So many word, but none I can make a coherent sentence from. This is so good, I don't even know what to say. Congrats on the TS. So well deserved. 👏
Blimey, that was gruesome. And yet, sensual too. Maybe it's the power of the invitation that does it, the dominant voice.
Oh this is incredible. One of my favourite poems of all time. The utter rawness is breathtaking. The defiant tone is soo captivating. I cannot put into words how much I love this poem!
Whoaaaa!!! This was so freaking intense and bloody!! I loved it sooooooo muchhhhhh!!
Nice work. Clever use of sarky, yet evocative turns of phrase. I've been working on a piece of writing for a few days and hope to post it shortly. It contains a line about devouring a heart whole.... promise I'm not trying to steal your thunder with the reference to consuming part of someone's body :P