"My name means wicked. Unholy.Ahab was my unholy. His tongue, my tongue. His flesh, my flesh.I was..."

“My name means wicked. Unholy.

Ahab was my unholy. His tongue, my tongue. His flesh, my flesh.

I was a woman in love.

They robbed me of Ahab’s breath. Then my sons.

I wasn’t thrown into the pit of dogs.

I dove.”

- Jeanann Verlee, “Jezebel Revisits the Book of Kings,” Said the Manic to the Muse