POEM STARTER

Write a poem that is grotesquely romantic.

This could mean a poem that’s overly lovey-dovey, one that has a romantic theme but grotesque imagery, or something else altogether.

Sweet as Spoiled Wine

Even your decay was divine to me—**sweet as spoiled wine. **My lips understood your polished collarbone better than any vow—tracing slow, scared, aching to be felt back.


Your ribs sang in splinters, and I hummed along with my teeth gnawing on your ghost. It didn’t hurt you, yet you bled. Laughing like a wound unstitched, wearing your dignity like perfume.


You smiled with bones.


Touched me in echoes—not with your hands, though.


I let you in where even I was not allowed.


Even your beauty was profane to me—**sweet as spoiled wine.** Wretched and ruinous.

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