Spa (2024)


Picture of a cigarette in a heart shaped ashtray.

"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want if meaning, their lack of style."
- The Picture of Dorian Gray


I’ll treat my destruction like a spa,
my demise an aroma like perfume.
Wear your eyes like designer,
lament with ink like eyeliner.
Drape my guilt over my shoulders;
nostalgia covers me like a shawl.
Pair my eye bags with a heel;
the shoe slips on like glass.
Watch me finally shade match
grisly decadence to my soul.
Put my pain on display,
call it a performance art.