She pins you to hotel doors—
not a goddess anymore,
but she still looks like religion in high heels.
She kisses you godless. Whispers,We dress like princesses to go out and kill kings.

Ashe Vernon, from “Old World Gods,” Wrong Side of a Fistfight

(via lifeinpoetry)

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