you're crawling on the bedsheets while I seat myself wondering
how can such a slender body
weak my knees and cheap my values
you flatten your head to pick me up
at any dispersion, for leisure
with impressive length, incredible speed

and the lightning strikes in the dark
I metamorphose in between your neurotoxic behavior
I see the patterns in your skin print
the olive color in your whole strong being
the angst, the love

and then I let you in
I ask you kindly,
wrap yourself in my arms like najas
have yourself a bite of my skin
let all my defects align

poison all of my green and purple veins
heart beating to the rhythm of your enchantment
bombing my bloodline with your infectious passion

and since then I’ve made you my pet,
my one desire is to make you my taxidermy
my nervous system still in agonizing excruciation
in fatal destiny and bony awakeness
I sing myself to death to the tone of your dangerous hissing

and I gorgeously love it
I sure do like how that poison feels

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About the Author

Valium Hippy (birth name Rogério Berardo Filho) (he/him) is a writer and poet born and living in Recife, in northeastern Brazil. He is currently 20 years old, LGBT, a dog dad, and writes to cope with mental health complications.