to perfect the art of pain
sift and sprinkle the ashes of your lover over your cocaine heart,
tar and feather every inch of your rotten soul,
taint with blood your guns and roses,
stain with salty tears your red lip stick

            to perfect the art of suffering
gun to the head
  blade to the wrist
    pill to the lips
       pick your poison!

            to perfect the art of torture
shoot melancholic venom up your veins,
wrap barbed wire around your ribs like art deco,
beat yourself with your own life
until it reminds you of your childhood

       take a chalice of sins,
                                cheers!
to the pain you practice day after day until
        achieving
                perfection

warnings
some pieces may mention death, gore, trauma, self harm, violence, sex, and other sensitive subjects.

everything in this book is my own original work.

dedicated to those who read my poems and everyone i love.

COCAINE HEART © putrescentpoet 2021