poem: angel/freak/bloodbather

freak your heart betrays you

angelfish is walking

the sour grapes inside the mouth are popping and soiling thousands of years of granite carving

make a funny face

call yourself electric

esteemed

arrested by the erotic power of the motion

birthed wrapped up in egg white

curled on the pupil of an eye like a child trying to sleep

it blinks and you are washed away in saltwater

angelfreak you’ve sold something

it wasn’t mine

or yours

you’re kissing the feet of something

i can’t see what it is because i’m crouched

back naked

on stone bannister

wishing it weren’t real

wishing an escape from this place

crawl with us up the stairs towards true insight

and find there a pool of blood so similar

to the day i bathed us both.

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