A. VDB

Author: andivandenberge

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    Obedience sold at market price*

    She’ll be lovely and quiet pink and delicate like an oyster drooling on the floor lipstick in place. Insert through eye and strike the chisel A mere tap with the hammer and she’ll petrify to breath-taking stone and you’ll restore peace at home. Never mind the detachment, you like your coffee poured from an empty…

  • Your Precious Abomination

    Pearled decay with the pull of a cheek Expose your canines— playing fortress to a cursed tongue with your ears, I hope you see me—as I am. Your Precious, Abomination

  • If you call it cutlery, let it cut

    Reflective surface given power by flame. Forged in a pit of hope, beaten to elegant form. Silver eager to mold- a spoon if that’s what you need a spoon here to please Please, a powerful beginning. Why a flattened start? Pummeled on the anvil of servitude- a hindsight bias, she could have used in the…

  • I Don’t Need Nicotine Patches, I Smoke Cigarettes

    Images of a Swamp Willow weigh me down Statue my presence, petrify my face Perhaps the monster’s toothed margin its scattered warts on its alabaster belly spare my fear a touch. For its tentacles that root it still, terrorize me the most. The hush is almost tranquil, noiselessness serves a calm but the tick of…