Paradise
Great orchids bloom
Against the humid, foggy gloom,
Seedlings eat the dead
And on my skin rolls angry red
As army ants crush my bones
Marching over my heaving tombstone;
And I rot six feet underneath
While paradise glares at me with gnashing teeth.
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chasing-laurel
L.K. Chase is a writer with way too many ideas and way too little time on her hands. When she isn't hunched over calculus (a subject she doesn't like to admit that she adores), she can be found sleeping, listening to metal, sneering at her favorite cat, or on the kitchen floor, eating mint chocolate chip ice cream. Out of the carton. But only at night. Mom hates it when she eats out of the carton. L.K. Chase prides herself in her pen name. She thinks it sounds snazzy. Find her on Wattpad or Tablo, if that tickles your fancy: wattpad.com/user/aries_34 tablo.io/aries-34
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