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Tell me there’s money in the bank. Take the eyeliner from Prince’s vanity. Behead the queen and take the city in a coup. Give me prose, give me a riddle, give me a rouse. Hide the bread, and eat the rich. Tell me I’m a **** boy but don’t touch me or I’ll bite. Take my hand, then let me step on your neck. Give me money, give me beauty, give me power. I want to fill myself up until the land runs wet And the rice drowns in the fields, And the peasants die in their beds. Selfishness to self-preservation, feast to gluttony. Are we still skinny dipping if my arms have run rotten with gangrene. Fill me up with floodwater, fill me up with wine. I want to be full and fat, fight vulnerability with consumption. The barricades I’ve set are mean, they run hot with electricity. I want a heavy velvet dress and a fast flowing river. Give me lilies and paint me, Millais. Paint me **** paint me crazed. All canvas turns to clothing, turns to rags, turns to ash. Once the guillotine, then a cut, then a scab.
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Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 at 3:47 PM UTC
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Tell me there’s money in the bank. Take the eyeliner from Prince’s vanity. Behead the queen and take the city in a coup. Give me prose, give me a riddle, give me a rouse. Hide the bread, and eat the rich. Tell me I’m a **** boy but don’t touch me or I’ll bite. Take my hand, then let me step on your neck. Give me money, give me beauty, give me power. I want to fill myself up until the land runs wet And the rice drowns in the fields, And the peasants die in their beds. Selfishness to self-preservation, feast to gluttony. Are we still skinny dipping if my arms have run rotten with gangrene. Fill me up with floodwater, fill me up with wine. I want to be full and fat, fight vulnerability with consumption. The barricades I’ve set are mean, they run hot with electricity. I want a heavy velvet dress and a fast flowing river. Give me lilies and paint me, Millais. Paint me **** paint me crazed. All canvas turns to clothing, turns to rags, turns to ash. Once the guillotine, then a cut, then a scab.
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Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 at 3:47 PM UTC
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