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.