My Kitchen Smells Like Blood and Coffee

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I have him backed into the cabinet's corner

like a lamb to be slaughtered,

Sweat dripping like tears from his balding scalp.

The beads evaporating before they hit the ground

As I light this kitchen on fire.


My knife screeches against his marble countertop.

It's his turn to flinch, 

His turn to squeal and beg and cry

Like a runty little piglet.

I, on the other hand,

feel like a shark,

and the caffeine is finally kicking in.


He has no time to yell, no time to apologize,

Blink and you'll miss the blade sink into his spluttering throat,

Blink again and you'll open your eyes 

to the knife jutting from his throat like a

Shark fin.

It drips crimson

Iced Mocha, and 

Vanilla Frappuccino, and 

Carmel Latte, and 

Cafe Macchiato 

Every cup of coffee I brought to him when he was working late

(When I still was foolish enough to believe in love)

Only to pour it along with my hopes down the sewers

After watching him crawl into a broken woman's broken body.


My kitchen smells like a Starbucks massacre.

It's delicious. 



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