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Writer's pictureWillow Herz

Poem: It's a Fucking Birthday


it’s a fucking birthday!

cake is seeping out of my fucking eyes

and limbs

and lips

my brain is confetti

old celebration

that I smoked to death

hitting it with a rhythmic

thwackthwackthwack

until the whole thing

bursts open like a fucking

spiral staircase of snakes

winding through

every branch of my

alleged consciousness


put on a cone hat

if this were white

they would have fucking

killed me

would it be a favor?

a good old party favor?

see the goldfish through that film–

the thin plastic

holding its breath

inside a bubble

never to leave,

perpetually staring at

prospective suffocation


forget it,

I’m staring a the mirror

and it’s staring at me

melting into the wooden floors,

I splinter every inch of my skin

freckles are just memories

disguised as allure

it's difficult to believe

that you never noticed them;

do you only see black in

the night sky?


you love my little stars,

the way they crinkle when I laugh

so fucking

tell me so,

if I age another day without it

the candle will get shoved

down your weak watery red esophagus

in hopes that it’ll finally

put some fucking fire

in your insipid soul

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