E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

TRIGGER WARNING - AN ADULT POEM FOR HALLOWEEN... LESBIAN VAMPIRE ACADEMY It is not, one might suspect, a place for sisters To swallow a garlic tablet, or inspect a crucifix; Lipstick applied strictly without mirrors; The librarian expects Swinburne’s books Returned to the minute or penalties accrue; Turned at eighteen from mortal to undivine, They prefer their correction on the rack Wriggling as they divest them of mortal wine – The inside gag they have to label our blood – For make no mistakes, these fanged co-eds With their skirts and blouses kill for sport Like gods did once; they’re the new thing, Digitally connected to the boys they lure To suspend upside down, pleading anaemia Or malaria or worse – girls long in tooth, Their claws decreased for Instagram, their busts Instead pronounced – most from Slavonic Lands, or so they sound – they smirk, and grind Their words like chewing bones, torture Syntax because they can; whip their torsos In...