brothel-in-law

I got my neon-lights baptism
the day I turned 21
and had sex at work,
in a second-hand wedding dresses shop,
my fellows telling me to do anal.

We are all love and rape offspring,
aren't we?
In this frantic dance of circumstances
sometimes you win,
other times you lose
but you are always playing.

I think of life as a vast minefield
where settling down means death
Anyway, boy, I have always liked bloody fireworks
I have always liked explosions under my knees.
Between twenty-pounds twenty-minutes love affairs
I chose to think about it as a minefield.

 -  © victoria bardot, 2013