Offering 52 is now available: Heart Pie by David Mac.
Mascara
beetles in your boudoir belch from your black liquid eyes
your heart’s a grey ashtray the shape of a skull
I have come here again with my bouquet of wilting flowers
I have come to lovingly break your neck
and you can hardly believe the words hissing from my mouthpiece
they are not the ones you expected
so, as I cross the room to find a vase, all that separates us is
the sound of tears from your eyes, and poison from mine
– previously appeared in Purple Patch
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