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Sipping On Straight Chlorine

Sipping on straight chlorine

and I'm not even 21


loaded I'm taking them by the doubles

it started with a 50 mg

to straight up crystallines my g


intoxicated on devil's breath at this point I'm drinking straight up nightshade


i say i won't i say i wont 

but i just can't hold myself

back because the more i refrain the higher i 

get


on word, oh SPOKEN WORD 

POETRY


sucking my body whole

i don't know when i decided to befriend this ink-filled carnivore


soon there won't be any left of me to unwrite no more


i know it because when the hours turn to double d's,

in front of me a marathon runner who just lost their goddamn inhaler,


someone like that can't go on i already know

one day I-t'll just

shut down


Yé one day,

In the middle of my scrawling delirium


manifesting reverberations

from the things flying through your hair


that familial process of burying my own flesh while i decay will get me to hit


a high so high that my body will just outright 

die


made my bedsheets into paper so i could write as i lay and yet i 

still sleep

with the lights off


i thought it was temporary you know,

but its become something beyond a phase


written itself into my skin my genes

i can't rewrite DNA


last night i dozed off pencil in hand, my tree-made bedsheets

to be sure, i was sleeping as i was writing and then i woke up to find my dreams on led 


fucking hell

fucking hell


screaming it was

ecstacy


but my friend holy shit,

i think I'm greying out of reality


writing myself into

lunacy 



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