Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

by Megan Fox

how many times have you watched me die and still you don’t realize that you are the reaper

you are an addiction that no amount of prayers will ever cure my cries for relief floating unheard into the ether you are killing me but my heart won’t give you up this thread through our past lives tightly wound around my neck siphoning my breath to fill your lungs

i’m not a zealot i didn’t come here to die for your sins you crucify me then beg me to be your redeemer hanging the weight of your salvation around my neck like a noose • leading a lamb to slaughter

my soul is full of holes from your acid-soaked love • 3:33 a.m.

maybe the apple was actually a cock and maybe eve wanted it because adam was too busy, self-absorbed, and distracted to fuck her? maybe the original sin was a man taking a woman for granted • i’ve always liked serpents

i’ve humbled kings alone i’ve fought wars against titans still they foam at the mouth attempting to silence me because i am a mirror that reminds them of what they cannot have you mistook me for a possession when i was a nuclear weapon all along • you wanted marilyn monroe but you got joan of arc instead

they say she dwells in the cities of the sea they say she was a banshee a demon hag that she seduces innocent men in their sleep they say she eats babies but really she was just a woman who refused to get on all fours so an insecure man could feel like a god • the truth about lilith

he speaks destruction because chaos was his first language

when they ask you who was your greatest love don’t whisper my name scream it and when they ask you what is your biggest regret don’t write it in a song cut yourself open and write it in blood • prove it, orpheus

it hurts to see how i’ve betrayed myself trying to save the souls of men who do not want to be saved it hurts to see how my legacy will only rest in the space between my legs • the book of mary magdalene

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