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.