I Might've Been Born Again
VIRGIN DAY SPECIAL. "I'm ready to feel like I don't have the answers" -Lorde
Author’s Note: HAPPY VIRGIN RELEASE DAY EVERYONE!!! This poem is After Hammer.
I started writing pop music poetry during the Solar Power era (I love that album fight me) before I even knew what Substack was!! I’m so excited to be able to share my thoughts and feelings on Virgin with you all in real time. I have a feeling this won’t be the only Lorde poem I write this year. . . let’s ride this out together.
i’ve spent too many summers
celibate
swimming naked with no
one decency overlaying
my options. the first time
i bleached my hair chlorine
recoded
me swamp wench water
combed its cool green
dip dye against my breasts.
i liked boys except a boy would
never be a mermaid.
boys went on virginity seeking
incubus levitation piss in the pool
while making out with you tours.
things could’ve turned out scandalous
for them except i was born
arriving & always arriving. everything
still made new again.
the horizon still bleeds
blood orange into gray
like god.
the clouds forget themselves
watching me
i shave my head so the sun
truly bathes me. this time love
will be only semi aquatic. i go
the everglades to play platonic
mermaids with the gators
& a girl. we eat shrimp
i turn pink.
peony open, being scorched
by a solstice
longest day intimates
summer keeps coming back for more
of me what if i’m
full of it?
that girl on fire screaming through the house
jumps out your window
floats up just fine after a cold plunge.
petals unchanged except now
she is everywhere.
A fine and fun poem which I enjoyed reading. It's a great day when, if you can't make a poem you can read one that stops you going out of your mind. Thank you
Awesome! I really enjoyed this. It’s been fun watching the Lorde excitement in people this year and I’ve contagiously gotten excited too… looking forward to more 🤘