A few final inquiries before we release you into the field!
1. do you consider yourself a good and pleasing thing?
2. if no, how long until fluent in the language of flagellation?
3. are you jaded or is the flop always darkest before the slay?
4. are you:
a. lucky girl subliminal
b. pelted vegetables glancing off your armor
c. mature for your age
d. already soured when you came to
5. did your mother show you her blistered hands after making you a meal / can you extricate love from sacrifice?
6. are you stillborn adolescent / cosplaying faultlessness like a pastor’s kid?
7. do you miss what your exoskeleton promised when you lift the mask & find nothing left?
8. are you holding your breath for a badly filmed apology video from the country that should’ve protected you but pressed the sword in your hand?
9. are you:
a. alternate universe fanfiction
b. a house before flowers
c. powerful passport
d. your grandmother’s soft upturned hands
10. or will you:
- take up the task & cut off the fucker’s head
- cut off its head
- cut off its head
- cut off its head
11. how much of you is who you say you are / the dark shape of a thing they invented?
12. who in your lineage is haunting you?
13. did you choose the blood in your mouth?