Evelyn Escoto

History Eats Itself

Self- loathing,
She screams,
"I want you!"
and self loathing
she breathes
and breaths
breaths
Self- Righteous:
fear in the heart.
Arrow pointed in the wrong direction.
eve pointed:
evil reigns once more.
Live like you mean it.
Unplug the cord
and fasten the zipper.
Lust.
Evil invites itself,
eve unclothes
reveals nostalgia of
milk-filled breasts,
intrepid vagina,
and full-mouthed
lip-ring,
she sings.

John

Back-ended trenches
light and torch -the monster
unfolds a heroic aim to aims, guns
everybody fires a sad goodbye bullet into the
empty spaces of tomb death war
years of courage, red-blooded male
every woman's desire or so the
devil says.
Deer caught in headlights. Blue as deep as sea
envision the mission
violate the pacifist cross
in the name of God
lowered to the ground.

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