Alise Versella I Don’t Care to Be Pretty I will never be the girl with the pretty mouth For the girl with the pretty mouth is the girl Who will eventually get slapped Along the length of it Who will grow ashamed Of its curling corners Because everyone will tell her to smile Show teeth […]

Alise Versella In Defense of My Existence Philomela was raped And before she could bring A kingdom to his knees King Tereus cut out her tongue They wish they could sever a tongue from this hellish mouth The gods turned her into a nightingale Like somehow flight would save her Not like every time young […]