i compile a bloody aesthetic
which sees me dreaming
as though i were anaesthetised
and i had become a china doll
anyone grabbing me
when the music lulled:
and i study my wrists
and wonder at the lines,
my palms and curling thumbs
which perpetrate --
i lick my wounds with a barbed tongue
and smile with blood between my teeth.(05/03/2017)
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THE OCEAN
Poetry'In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and...