Battery acid. A broken highlighter drips neon down your chin. Vinegar and glow stick fluid. Luciferin is a bioluminescent enzyme found in fireflies. Lemon juice pricking the nerves in your teeth. Glowing fireflies. Glowing teeth. Drain cleaner. Batteries that leak tears. Plastic glow-in-the dark stars reflect in your dilated pupils. Carbonic acid is what makes your Pepsi so refreshing. A glow stick snaps in your mouth. Neon smile. Glowing smile. Bleach in my pineapple juice. Calcified battery acid crusts over your sleeping eyes. Oozing eyes. Eyes crying acid like the rain that falls from sick clouds onto the open Earth. Please don't catch the drops with your tongue. Chlorine stings your sinuses after a day at the pool. Dry skin. Burning eyes. Radon radiating from a broken restaurant sign. Glowing sign. Pineapple juice and bleach. Lemon and Clorox. Effervescent. Singing batteries. Screaming batteries. The glow-in-the-dark stars in your room are inspired by the radon leaching from the broken sign. Flashing stars. Flashing sign. Flashing neon. Throbbing acid. Throbbing teeth melted by a pH too strong for calcium to withstand. The firefly lands on the broken highlighter. Bleeding highlighter. The firefly gets caught in the acid rain and falls on your tongue. How many times must you spit on a skeleton for it to erode? What is the pH of human saliva? Have you ever been in a chlorine pool while it's raining acid?
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A Collection of Thoughts
PoetryA collection of mostly free verse poems and short stories. Sometimes it is nice to simply clear your head. *Trigger warnings: descriptions of disturbing themes such as: body horror, death, interactions with the uncanny, topics in biology, and suici...
