MTV Perfume, Snow Drop Thoughts, & Drunken Stop Nowhere

Anna Dorn 

The Reality Issue

Poetry

MTV perfume 

imagine doves wanting  

cigarettes in sacred limousines 

either insanity
or endless love vibrations 

crystal listening

i am the happy holy human 

the depraved butterfly 

internet writer chewing 

foam your lips &

mirror my ghastly face 

alcoholism surprises myself 

pathological eyes water  

cracked glitter polish 

melting eyelashes

too playful to party 

exquisite 

nightclubs

frost 

hell 

“yes yes yes

oh radiant chemistry

big pupil revelations”

snowdrop thoughts

online gays shrieking 

unintelligible explosions

versace conspiracies

in terrifying gardens 

bleak novelist writing 

sunny internet smut

wars of backlit aliens

dematerialized passions 

asylum bees 

baby deer bubbling 

freakish distances 

yes yes yes 

oh radiant chemistry 

big pupil revelations

unstable girlies applying

kylie’s lip lies 


drunken stop to nowhere 

the trashy demon 

arches blameless

in behavioral bathwater 

committed to spinning vermin

into humid poems

backlit fever kiss

post-angst dream erotic  

twilight’s slippers decay into

fragrance of god’s 

overeducated torso 

repeating stab words 

an evil picture 

barbed-wire water 

intellectual horror blue

lana del rey’s razor 

psycho slice me with 

majestically limp wrists 

candles either burn 

or i forget 




 

Anna Dorn is the author of Perfume & Pain, Exalted, and Vagablonde. She lives in Los Angeles.