literature

canis lupus

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"all the better to see you with"
your eyes like ankle weights enthralled her---
save the lonely girl,
put her out of her misery
with her own helium kisses
(she likes the dark, it's in her eyes and
you can show her depth---
i dare you)

the devil's in your gaze;
his fingers in your throat, he's watching
(can you feel the knuckles pressing
in your lungs?)
you're hungry---
"all the better to
slit your wrists and suck you dry"
all the better to feel your fingers
dancing with the devil's hands---
he loves how you love
the way her fingers taste in your stomach
(she walks like wolves are after her,
you know  she knows you're waiting)
don't be foolish

she walks with spiders and talks to trees,
her legs like tendrils reaching through the soil,
she knows this place---
she's heard of you and your teeth,
and her doe eyes see right through you to the
nerves sewn in your cortex,
to the scorpion-tango of instinct and survival
branded across the notches in your backbone;
she's slept in foxholes and danced through burrows, and
word spreads quickly here;
there are whispers of you etched into the wind,
the scent of savage bloodlust thinly masked by darkness
(all the better to
scare her off too fast)
you're nothing in daylight,
just a beast licking blood from your canines,
hiding in the shade, but
they still see you---
all the better to give yourself away

you thought you hid your teeth,
but they linger in your eyes,
(your teeth are in the devil's hands)
they're giving you away,
shining through the void in your stomach
where you learned to stalk and kill,
to put on sheep skins and polyester---
you're always hungry,
but you're careless and
your eyes are sharp as needles,
heavier than anchors,
your eyes are full of teeth and hellfire,
pupils for the devil
(he'll teach you where to cut, how to
skin your kills and hide inside)

hey trickster---
smoke and mirrors only work in darkness,
you were meant to walk the night;
the daylight rips illusion from your axis of deceit,
but you can hold your head down,
hide your teeth and bide your time before
your jaws yawn wide and go for the throat
("all the better to show you your insides
before i lick them from the floor")
should i use this for slam?
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IncompleteMe's avatar
I loved it. So many images in my head.
Did you use it for slam?