violent violet dreams in shades of blue
blew his savings on prosthetic breast forms, benzodiazepines, peep show tokens

a placeholder till someone better comes along - the hot-melt adhesive till someone nails themselves to you
and they can call me feral, and they can call me cruel
they never saw the way your garden grew

carved your initials into the wild teak tree and kissed the flesh that kept you grounded to the earth
an invasive species only wants what’s best
to preserve itself means to kill the rest
and hold you so tight in its vines that you choke before you even feel the thorns in your flesh

i can’t blame you when i made you
and you made me happy for a while