Marmalade Lit

EAT

Nuppu Tanskanen — Finland

blizzard bites your bones it’s alright you chose this life YOU CHOSE THIS LIFE

GLITTERING GLIMMERING IT SHONE ON YOU AND YOU REACHED OUT TO

TOUCH IT TAKE IT AND DID SO AND THAT SMILE WAS NEVER TOO WIDE FOR

BELIEF

hungry baby birds scream for your sick is their only sustenance it's alright you'll feel like hell

soon YOU’LL FEEL LIKE HELL SOON AGAIN YOUR WHOLE NEW LIFE YOU’VE

FELT LIKE HELL LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW BY NOW HELL MUST FEEL LIKE

YOU

a growl commands you beside the beast does not ask but orders DOES NOT ASK BUT

ORDERS FOR LONGER THAN MEMORY STAYS YOU'VE DONE AS ORDERED NOT

AS ASKED A WISH IS A SOUND SO SOFT IT DROPPED OFF YOUR RADAR FIVE

BRIDGES PAST

a week’s dinner has a standard weight of three pounds more than you’ll ever be loved at this is

factual THIS IS FACTUAL: YOU WILL CHOKE ON LAND YOU WILL SWIM IN

MOLASSES TOWARDS ONE KIND WORD UTTERED SIX DECADES AFTER YOUR

PASSING YOU WILL TEAR OUT ALL YOUR HAIR STILL NOT BEING HER

snow is so white no scar can run through it so you let the wound gape SO YOU LET THE

WOUND GAPE AS IT IS PENETRATED PILFERED SOWN SUCKED SPANKED

TRAMPLED STRETCHED YOU HOWL AND RETCH MELODIC RESISTANCE

ANSWERED WITH MADMAN’S LOVE

he only does it for he loves you so he might die from it HE MIGHT DIE FROM IT GOD

MAKES NO GUARANTEE BUT YOU HAVE TRUSTED BLINDER IN YOUR TIME SO

YOU PLUNGE AND YOU KEEP PLUNGING FOR YOU FEEL LIKE HELL

EXCEPTIONALLY WELL

About

Nuppu is a 20 year old writer and poet fascinated endlessly by themes of feminism, marriage, religion and the various roles women fulfill in all three contexts. Outside of writing, she spends most of her time reading the literature of gone-by centuries and taking long, sprawling walks by any body of water she can find.