03-27-2011, 10:24 AM
"I like Anne Sexton because she was beautiful and she killed herself". - comment on an Anne Sexton fan page
they swoop down to feed on the reputations
of young writers who killed themselves,
beautiful women and ugly drunk men
who blew out their brains, and were
only discovered once the moths had finished.
they circle my own lines sometimes,
silver claws poised like erections rising
to meet the feel of a soft womb,
crowing and whining with pretend sympathy,
while secretly waiting until my body
shows up in a makeshift noose.
(I'm not even famous, but still some persist.)
I feel like drawing a shotgun
and blasting them out of the sky.
fuck those savage demon birds!
I’ll live until I’m eighty-two,
still entertaining twenty-four-year old men,
their arses ripe for the plucking.
they swoop down to feed on the reputations
of young writers who killed themselves,
beautiful women and ugly drunk men
who blew out their brains, and were
only discovered once the moths had finished.
they circle my own lines sometimes,
silver claws poised like erections rising
to meet the feel of a soft womb,
crowing and whining with pretend sympathy,
while secretly waiting until my body
shows up in a makeshift noose.
(I'm not even famous, but still some persist.)
I feel like drawing a shotgun
and blasting them out of the sky.
fuck those savage demon birds!
I’ll live until I’m eighty-two,
still entertaining twenty-four-year old men,
their arses ripe for the plucking.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe