Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

by Megan Fox

you keep telling me it was an accident that you would never hurt me on purpose that you’re just too young to have known better but what’s the difference between manslaughter and murder? i’m still dead either way

i hate men i hate men i hate men i hate men i hate men i hate men i hate men • 7, the number of completion

girls don’t talk back girls don’t ask for more girls don’t want girls don’t need girls don’t take they give girls don’t speak loud they whisper girls don’t say no girls don’t tell a boy’s secrets when his sins are ones that only god can forgive • absolution it

it doesn’t matter how beautiful, loyal, nurturing, sexy, witty, charming, smart, or altruistic you are. he will still take you for granted • why i wish i was gay

you thought that if you stopped watering me i would die but you forgot to dig up my roots and though you tried your best you weren’t able to block me from the light and while you neglected me i trusted in the unseen and now there is a sequoia standing where that naive sapling used to be i’ve outgrown you and no matter how much you cry or beg i will never be your giving tree • photosynthesis go on a date they say go have fun they say you could have anyone they say it doesn’t matter how many times i tell them that my soul has been seeking you for as long as i can remember that i had an image of you in my mind when i was a child that my heart sent out a sonar for so many years gray and lonely my hope vanishing my body aching until i finally found you again and instantly i recognized you soulmate sacred love tormentor no, you don’t make sense to them