Cupid’s Bordello
Black mansion of sex and greed,
put me on a leash.
Improvise missing body parts,
fill lines of secretion with
coven-scented lotions and creams.
Fill mouths with petals of saliva,
and dress your dolls in the dark–
the crow’s charcoal cold.
Clawed fingers poke your abdomen,
swapping sensory and dysfunction–
carve rings of starving and wait.
Soak up pools of moisture,
with tongues laced and dissected
right down the middle–
from the scissors you carry in your pocket.
Break the rules of scent and stench,
wear the lipstick of misanthropes–
the perfumes of Cupid’s ritual,
maintain your homeostasis
through electrically charged bodies,
at broken arm’s length.
Eat morsels of chocolate and testify,
the poisons in your system barricade–
intestinal home.
Digest,
the beginning of the end.
Ashen Blue
Comfortable decay in her dress,
these black bows adorn her skin–
grey,
ashen–
crisping,
beneath the sticks used to feather her vendetta–
no clitoris.
Her chest cavity aches for you,
deep purple–
grey and purple make blue.
Choking hazards are your tongue,
twisting down her throat–
bulging masses she can’t handle,
necrophiliac, you.
Pretty girl, ashen and blue,
you use iron gateways to originate her holes–
prop open her smile with bullets and stones…
Alice’s Lips and Lullabies
Singing in the sanity ward,
where rabbits burrow beneath skin–
enriching tickle,
itching tickle–
Alice stares at the wall.
Her lips, once enriched by
the Hatter,
grow concave by crevisso–
moist yet dry contradiction.
Queens eat the crackers,
quickest route to hunger improvised
by throats and diction.
Spades capture hearts,
mimicking and licking ventricles
of Bathory blood and whispers.
Lullabies crawl in crescendos
of silk,
cream notes spoiled by the dark…
Brittany Warren is a twenty-three-year-old dark poet and Creative Writing major at her university. She works hard at her craft every day. Other than Literary Orphans, Brittany’s work can be found in Surreal Grotesque magazine, The Carnage Conservatory, Insomnia Press, A “Best of” Anthology of Surreal Grotesque, and she frequents the Surreal Grotesque podcast. Brittany currently runs a blog for all of her dark poetry, and it can be found at www.bonesofbrittany.wordpress.com.