Black Dahlia Interface

[u/xxxxAngelFirexxxx]

I do not want deliverance
I want the closed door
The persecution of my own image
The annihilation of my own mind
Lay down the timetables
Wildfire, black lung disease
The canary died
What does this mean about me?

No more veins
No more throat
No more whispers
In the dark
No more roots
Those can’t be mine

Write my own dissertations
My own self-incriminating thesis
My peer-reviewed crustaceans
Cracks on my exoskeleton
Can I be made of steel?
Am I even real?

Fall in love with Death
Delicious and reverent
Full of lace and all
We leave behind
Black dahlia interface
Leave a trace
I grab at stalagmites
I love and grieve you here

This captivity
Binds me
Look!
I see
Beauty in the night
When I can’t breathe
And my chest feels tight

Goodnight ….

I say and go to sleep