Six Things To Know About Monsters
One: It’s okay to feel like a monster
sometimes. (Most monsters are human,
after all.)
Two: most monsters are human.
You should maybe watch out for that,
and them
and you
on nights when the moon is an eyetooth
gnawing the sky.
Three: there’s different types of monster.
Some, your common or garden variety,
are dangerous only to themselves
or unguarded hearts;
these will telegraph their nature
with bright colours, tattoos,
open books of poetry, long conversations;
this is how you know
they’re worth your time.
(As with scorpions,
it’s the bland insidious camouflaged ones
you have to watch out for: monsters
that don’t know they’re monsters; who think
all kisses should taste of their venom
and nine to five suits.)
Four: there is no right way
to approach monstrosity.
Life is a process
of ritual scarification: your keloid bones
are just as valid here
as tentacles, night-horrors,
mirror-ghosts. Come on in.
I promise, we all bite
gently
if you ask.
Five: no matter what they tell you,
most people want to be monsters.
All these smooth-skinned dolls we sell
and tell ourselves we want to be
are Chinese whispers run amok,
a dream of a copy of old receipts
for products that never existed
and never will.
Six: here’s the truth:
all people are monsters, sometimes.
Even the sleekest specimen is
a mess of magic under the microscope:
horns like bone spurs,
buried feathers itching at angry scapulae
like ingrown virtues.
Let them out. Reveal yourselves.
A monster alone is a cautionary tale,
but monsters together, darling –
we’re miracles.
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