Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

by Megan Fox

do you hear the sound of my cries echoing through every lifetime that you abandoned me to chase an illusion surely you hear the deafening cacophony of my event horizon tears eternal loop let me out how many more lives do i have to lay down for you until i’m set free

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

not all goddesses fly some of us struggle on the ground as the mortal men we gave our hearts to keep their feet on our necks but one day we will remember our own names and turn them all to ashes • hell hath no fury

the further away from you i get the more i realize i was never small it was just a matter of forced perspective • your optical illusion

but does the why even matter once she’s been devoured bones and all?

i am learning that it is better to be a monster than to be hunted by one • i’m not sorry

why do you so easily slip from my hands into a raging sea of insecurity and malice i follow after you doing my best to pull you back to shore but you are happy to drown me just so you can stay on the surface of your psychosis one sadistic moment more • an involuntary immersive experience

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