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 Serpent Books
Writer. Interested in all the rocks people have forgotten to turn over. There are whole worlds under there, you know. Dark ones too, even better.
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Comments (2)
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