Why? - Juliet Letters
Why is daddy not here? Are you crying? Why? Does he still love me? Will you take care of me? If you both love me so Why don’t you love each other Mummy’s gone missing Daddy’s on fire Daddy’s on fire Daddy’s on fire
The hunted look, the haunted grace The empty laugh that you cultivate You fall into that false embrace And kiss the air about her face Who do you think you are? The tres bon mots you almost quote from your Quiver of literary darts A thousand or so tuneless violins thrilling your cheap Little heart […]
I write in hopes that by the time you get this letter We may live to see a change for the better Or are we so devoted to these wretched selfish motives When the cold facts and figures all add up They cannot contradict this sad burlesque This sad burlesque With miserable failures making entertainment […]
Don’t send any money! Fate has no price Ignore at your peril this splendid advice An invaluable link in an infinite chain An offer like this will just not come again You wish you had women to charm and bewitch Power of life and death over the rich young girls will be swooning Because you’re […]
C/0 st. ignatus house, willoughby drive, parrametta, New south wales This fifth day of july, in the year of our lord nineteen Hundred and thirty five Why must i apologize every time that i sit down to write Through my own fault i may find You’re no longer living at this address Please excuse the […]
I should open with a kiss For if you’re reading this You must have opened up your case And found this letter where i placed it In between the silk and lace There were other clues, like your walking shoes But i still refused to believe That you were meant to be the first to […]
Summertime withers as the sun descends He wants to kiss you. will you condescend? Before you wake and find a chill within your bones Under a fine canopy of lover’s dust and humourous bones Banish all dismay Extinguish every sorrow Eternity stinks, my darling. that’s no joke Don’t waste your precious time pretending you’re Heartbroken […]
My dear impulsive darling i suspect my letter got to you too late And it’s really just a silly fragment of paper But it means so much to those who wait All the suffering days and nights ’til i dare dream again There you suddenly stand and i’ll be damned if you Didn’t disappear with […]
Swine - Juliet Letters
You’re a swine and i’m saying that’s an insult to the pig In the foul furrow that you dig Why don’t you lay your head down In that unconsecrated ground Was she your mother? Or was she your bride To defile and to blister To gnaw at her side Is this the end of the […]
Is anyone there i can talk to? Give us a sign if you’re with me Can’t you see that i’m dying to hear you Everyone else has lost interest And i’m all alone in this dream house Though you’re gone I don’t feel like crying Romeo is calling you Knock once or twice if you’re […]
