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God Hates Joey Ryan
God is not the saviour of the ghastly. He is not a guiding light back to salvation. The truth is, forgiveness is never free, but you can’t buy it, and the road to redemption is drowned in darkness. You can’t recite bible verses to get into heaven, because a clean soul is not a reward…
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We Will All Go Together When We Go
It finally happened. Dead of night, we died. Bright light breaks across the sky, heaven cries poison, and I’m awake, as usual, thinking of you, as my bones burst from sweet skin, desperate for your attention. Sirens are singing. I harmonise, hoping it’s all a dream, but knowing I was never that lucky. This war…
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Meghan Presses Record
A princess pats her throat, knowing it is full of gold, her eyes fixed on the arrows from Fleet Street, knowing there is no path for them, than the one they’ve always followed. Straight to the throat, taking the thoughts that fall from her mind, down through her head, stolen and splashed across pages of…
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New Moon
The moon slipped away, then returned, perfect and new. Watching over me. Watching my mistakes, taking me back up the path, casting a new spell.
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The Devil Takes Care Of His Daughters
Track two, Thank U Next, soundtrack to my damnation. Riverboat to hell. Red rivers, rise up, magnificent obsession. Satan smiles for me. Reaches out his hand, homecoming Queen, my crystal crown, made of tears gone by. There is a painting, high in the hallway, my face, burning but smiling. Say you’ll remember, the way I…