Channel: Savannah Brown

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Description: just a short one. it's like inside out but edgy links: insta: instagram.com/savbrown twitter: twitter.com/savannahbrown website: savbrown.com i wrote a novel: amazon.co.uk/Truth-About-Keeping-Secrets/dp/0241346304 also a poetry book: amazon.co.uk/Graffiti-other-poems-Savannah-Brown/dp/152721219X words: if i forced on you a scalpel would you use it as i say i’ll sit still while you penetrate and slowly slice the flesh away milking from my skull with your acquiescent touch burrow deeper, quickly, faster— at any moment this’ll be too much for me to take clutching arm as you descend latex stings, drill bit sings digging into brain until it bends now, please, for me i’ll say, with incandescent whine extract my anger from the sinew pluck my lust destroy my pride do these things make me a man asks my ego, lurid leech latching fast onto the stem with my malice and my greed my contempt does me no favours tied tight to intensity it looks too much like passion so they’re all taken from me with a swoop and rip assertion dead after ire cunning cut from contemplation so this is what they all admire and then fill the empty space with some cotton and some web stitch me up with twine tie a bow atop my mangled head and then everything’s fine