For Meg, who is soon to be a cannibal
SO I've recently started writing some weird ass love story stream of consciousness poetry. This all comes from a vivid dream I had. It's very disjointed and kind of raw, but I kind of like it that way.
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Meg I- I want you to know that this will all be over soon
All the panting Sapphic explosions high above the ground
All the days and nights bleeding together because you're abed
In a miasma of sainthood while I am purifying you through
Pain.
I love these days, Meg, I treasure these days even if
I am immortal. These are the days of your naissance
You are my daughter of the Aztec sun, brought about
Through the perpetual cravings of some dilapidated,
Ancient, undefined other who loves you
Meg, never has anyone tasted as sweet.
I have consumed, and consumed, and consumed
Like a void swallowing universes whole:
My binges leveled cities and tore holes in
Pretty women. Crime scene tape everywhere,
Bloody footprints, blood under my fingernails
Washing my hands in the bathroom sink ugh-
Not again-
God, Karistina, not again- it's so ugly, ugly, ugly-
I lick the water from the stones at the base of your tower
And I taste time. Time condensing. I mark it on
My body and I wear it as my clothing and I bathe
In it, bathe in minutes with seconds sliding against
My naked skin
You don't see. You're asleep, recovering, still
Bound to the bed. I keep you bound because
I have an aesthetic sort of soul, Meg, and I
Want to do this properly. I am a monster,
After all
Do you fear me, Meg? I wonder, when I am
The archaeologist that cracks open your ribcage
And digs through flesh and flesh and flesh
To find your golden Aztec heart, and I tear into it
With my sharp teeth, and pierce it with my sharp nails-
Do you shudder? Do you writhe because of the pain,
Or is it something more?
The room stinks like sex, Meg, and I wonder if you smell it
Or if it's just me. It's not subtle, the thickness in the air,
The wetness in the air, the tang of slick and sweat
That clings to the old stones around us
It assaults me as soon as I push open the wooden door
But then again, maybe you just smell the blood
I never knew there were so many shades of red.
The red crust staining the sheets, cracked and dried,
The red staining your body, and heaped under my nail beds,
The pink bits of stray flesh, and skin, and fat
The raw maroon of muscle, fresh, beating against my hand-
Is this the color of our passion?
I am a cannibal, Meg. I admit it.
The evidence stains my face and I will not wipe it away,
I will not hide because it galls you to see by day
What you crave by night.
I am a cannibal, Meg, but admit it: you like it.
You like me this way.
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