04-06-2020, 06:16 PM
XIV
Don’t you remember me, fly?
Don’t you remember the girl
in red? The girl who bled? You
taunted me as I taunted you,
you claimed, with my body and
my eyes. My pitiful, starving,
brilliant red eyes. Yours went
between them and my other
orbs-- that is, the bloody
blobs oozing down my legs. We
were what, twelve? thirteen?
Were you jealous? repulsed?
reminded, too young, of your
precious, precarious
mortality? Did you think I was
hungry for you? Did you think
your meat was kosher? It is
coincidence you’re now trapped
in my web. I apologize--
it’s meant for someone else.
Someone more handsome. I’ve
half a mind to free you now,
in anticipation of our
inevitable, incessant
bickering. And yet to watch
you shrivel up like the shells
of your comrades here strewn
about, if not by my jaws
sucking the life out of you
then by your hunger...
Don’t you remember me, fly?
Don’t you remember the girl
in red? The girl who bled? You
taunted me as I taunted you,
you claimed, with my body and
my eyes. My pitiful, starving,
brilliant red eyes. Yours went
between them and my other
orbs-- that is, the bloody
blobs oozing down my legs. We
were what, twelve? thirteen?
Were you jealous? repulsed?
reminded, too young, of your
precious, precarious
mortality? Did you think I was
hungry for you? Did you think
your meat was kosher? It is
coincidence you’re now trapped
in my web. I apologize--
it’s meant for someone else.
Someone more handsome. I’ve
half a mind to free you now,
in anticipation of our
inevitable, incessant
bickering. And yet to watch
you shrivel up like the shells
of your comrades here strewn
about, if not by my jaws
sucking the life out of you
then by your hunger...