Texts Between Artists II

Ireland abroad via America II
Illustration by Zuzu Hill

Ok, you merciful, beautiful bastard!

I am nothing if not a service to others, and BE SLAMMED 

And I wonder whether a girl can be a bastard? Yes! Because then I remember “Bastard Out of Carolina” and Dorothy Allison and also Jena Malone. Black and white, tho. Please no color; no Kodachrome.
(See: Simon & Garfunkel.)

While I get satisfaction from knowing I’m valued, there is even greater value in knowing someone else sees it, and the greatest value in knowing you are swamped and still see me as a little Lilly worth attention. Never feel obligated to feed MY ouroboros EGO

Oh no, I’m about to zzzzz, and now I think of snakes and tails and snakes eating their own tails and mummies waking alive in Ancient Egypt. 

PLEASE, for the love of fuck

Worry about your spectacular self before me, as I have said, and I will say again

I am dwarfed in your brilliance 

And find my light in your shadow 

 

O, Rimbaud. I think, O Rimbaud: Comet-eyed poet, you set language ablaze and vanished before the embers cooled. Your wild syllables still wander the world, beautiful and feral, refusing every cage.

You are a dream I will make reality. 

And if you don’t personally (while vividly and living) publish your manuscript, 

I will literally DIE out of tragedy 

Hahaha. Wouldn’t it be tragically cliché if I used rocks, or ran my car in the garage or… no, let’s not mention my muse OK because that, too, would be
cliché

Not that I’m THAT worried. But like. Fuck idk I’m drunk again, and kinda shocked by how quick you replied and refined my bs Your edit works a helluva lot better than mine, though it does break the villanelle format, which I agree with, since I hate formats lol

I don’t even know what a villanelle format is…

Regardless

Sleep so well

You owe me nothing, PLEASE

Don’t overexert yourself for savory scum like me.

K. Nite.

 

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