You Said I Was Your Venus

(former deity now memorial)

by Charlotte De'Ath

you used to treat me as a goddess

even placing me on a pedestal

against my pleas of vertigo

but after we moved in together

you cut my arms off

between my legs

push wriggle thrust grunt

you thought that was what love meant

leaving behind

on my marble white thighs

stains where your unarmed semen

dribbled then exsiccated

no one cried

i am still

i’ve gone from goddess to memorial

for the thousands unnamed

(s)hipwrecked on venus

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Charlotte was born in the east end of London but now lives in an idyllic cottage situated deep in the beautiful Suffolk countryside.  She has published one chapbook ‘Kicks To Hypnotise Suburban Daughters’ by Erbacce Press, and a further one of dark urban fairy tales is in the making.  She spends most of her free time playing with the Clueless Collective at: www.cluelesscollective.co.uk.