Tuesday, October 28, 2025

devil just passing through by Casey Renee Kiser

My nightmare-man comes SO LOUD;
he comes often, bores me and collects
my wrist cuts-
oh he cuts, he cuts, HE CUTS
Promises me I’m in the black book, he checks,
ha! Yes! Top ten mind-fuckable sluts! Cold cuts;
licks his knife and hands me his double tongue
I say, ‘Oh baby, JUST BREATHE’
as I rip out his dreamy lung. Can’t gaslight
a FiRestARTeR, dragon up my sleeve
Now he can’t wake up ‘cause my flames
will never leave
until he’s ready to upgrade

to my dReAm.

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Casey Renee Kiser is a punk poet who knows how to deliver the horrors of the mundane machine, churning out the emotions that lurk beneath the surface within complicated relationships, most of all, self.