I WANT MY SUICIDE TO BE SEVENTEEN LADIES DRESSED IN BLUE LINGERIE. - Belle Adriaticco
Listen to the accompanying spoken word performance at this link.
i want them to swallow my murderous squirt like tylenol. i want to be the loveliest at the function. i want it to be an arduous exhibition of femininity. i want it to be pulchritudinously asexual. i want to disassemble a pink-taxed razor and i want the ladies to draw little hearts on their wrists. i want them to take rose thorns to their eyes. i want the desecration of our bodies publicized. i want it to be mind controlled slut screens. i want it to be hypnotic images of women breaking porcelain sets from their wedding registry. i want them to stravinsky me. i want to be beholden by seventeen ladies who are aged seventeen and i want them to die pornographically.
i want them to
hate me for it.
Belle Adriatico is a poet. They live and write in Chicago with their cat, Villanelle. They are published in the Michigan City Review of Books, and they are the winner of the 2025 Rooted&Radical Youth Poetry Festival.