Monster.

Its rationality dissipated
drowning in algae
of murky lime-green
staining crystalline

Bigger
Better
Faster
Smarter
Prettier

Further ahead
Babes to the right
Left behind
Tastes like turpentine

Sandpaper tongue
Throat lined with poisonous
cobra
fangs

Tastes
like
bile

Forget your uniqueness
You feel
broken
unfinished
given up on

Can never
amount to
anything
to
pieces
and
life isn't
wor-
-th
it

Vile wickedness
spreading from the heart
to your fingertips
and it burns every inch of
who you thought you were
and reveals
a snake
hissingspittinginsecure

Why do you think
they shed their skin?

Little monster
grows up so fast
How does one
kill it dead?

Wishhopepray
you were better
you are better
but the big monster
loves you

Suffocate with
Eyes rolled back,
Lungs spitting rage
Algae filling them up

"Fill 'em up!"

You're turning green.
Scales sprouting.
You've never looked
so
ugly.