Misadventures of the Mind











{May 3, 2008}   What’s in my name?
Miss Reaper
 Miss Reaper.
She is a little thing.
 A Wisp.

 Pure black.

 

 

 Miss Reaper II

 Miss Reaper,
a strangled little goth thing.
 Tripping over books and souls,

in slap-thunk boots,

 

Miss Reaper III

He leaves Miss Reaper tired and frail,

shaking from the drug still

dancing,

The glimmering pink of broken glass

through her veins.

 The Coffin is on the nightstand,

its weight not on her now.

But with every step he takes,

its chains wrap more around.

 Fine and cold

and clinging,

Bringing back the heaviness

of lives gone by.

 

 

Miss Reaper IIII
She dresses up in death and dreams,

and binds her hair,

so that it seems

she can control,

one little thing.

 Her party dress is purple,

the color of her lies.

And all the people present,

comment on her eyes.

 To her everyone has blue ones,

But hers are a cutting,

shattered hue.

They look as though,

they already know,

what all there is to you.

 A flower growing on the wall,

not whispering with the vine.

Just standing there,

as still as stone,

watching yours and mine.

 

 

Miss Reaper IIIII    

When they first met,
She was fiddling,
fiddling with the chains on her coffin.
The one she carries on her back–

the one that carries all her pasts.

 Miss Reaper.

 He smiled at her,

then said he liked her bag.

She growled,

thought he was only teasing.

 When they first kissed,

She was a man,

face halo darkened,

and breasts bound tight.

 (So hard to breathe.)

 But she grinned and scowled,

deepened her voice.

He laughed and smiled.

Two boys kissing in the dry leaf smell.

The swings still groaning,

and the water hissing low.

 

 



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