Millennial Muses
We stalk through night streets with
cigarettes at matte lips
a haze of smoke like armor
Teenagers and twenty somethings
Our poetry starts out with
"Um, like a wine dark sea, y'know?"
hashtag flashback friday
To smoking joints with Mary Magdalene
We are whores and prudes, girls next door,
characters in boy's stories decked out in leather and lace
Cryptophasias and cracking gum
We drink limoncello and take our clothes off
The world tries to kill us, and sometimes it succeeds.
Persephone in 200 dollar demin, Joan d'Arc in fishnets
Girls have always talked to gods
These days we just send snapchats to them.