Houndstooth

Jagged & against the grain.

At home, we sit with our hair clipped up, feet on the couch. Our laptops are open and we’re studying—but really, we’re watching “She Killed Her Stepdad After Finding 100s of Her Nude Photos on His Laptop — The Jade Janks Story” as a bag of popcorn and chocolate syrup stare at us from the table.

Alpha Male comments You gain nothing by killing someone. You gain something by exposing that person and having that person live with it for the rest of his life.

I throw a piece of popcorn into my mouth.

Sandra Lewis comments This wasn't murder. This was just taking out the trash. I'm sorry that she got caught.

Buttered chocolate melts on contact. 

HAPPYGOLUCKY comments NEVER, EVER LET ANYONE TAKE NUDE OR INTIMATE PHOTOS OF YOU LADIES. THEY’RE IS A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE.

I chew, then swallow.

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Social suicide & rebirth

Committed twice a year

A different recipient

Stands enamored at the receiving end

After seeing red drip out

And onto a bed of ice

A kiss with a fist

In this room where the walls are wet, our clothes torn off upon running in.

They told us to run, and so we did.

Ivied stalagmites drip in unison

with the shutter of the camera

Behind a two-way mirror

I’m looking at me and so are you

With the draft, a shudder

Then a shutter.

We were unprepared

When they told us to run

Under broken twigs

The ground squelched under bare feet

You thought we were inside

But the walls were wet

The rain dripped

But the sound of something

Thicker than water

Bleeding and beading

On the already wet ground

Ungodly and organic,

Pulsated again and again

We felt salt

and skin

and water

Through the corridor

With wind wailing

They tore our clothes off

and played music

To lull us to sleep

As the sound of the camera

Clicking, blended into the rain.

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