Listen Up    Medusa
       

Seduced by your statuesque
hourglassivity    the oracles

are all correct    we'd fail
even as tresses    to exist

and this icy innuendo
where blades come whetted

daily for our splattered
scales    scalding light

welling in the cold
as the next of those perky

paladins approaches
mirror-toting

as we've been told
he may    Watch as we act

on our own for once
It'll really fuck everyone    if?

when?    reclaiming our limbs
serpentine    prelapsarian

we just get up and storm
right out of myth

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from Antiquity
Sarabande Books
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