Billet-Doux

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Cheyenne Jane Nguyen-Xuan.
20. Female. London.

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misery requires decorations, so in turn we learn to adorn.


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Resolvement.

Gusts of smoke and the flicker of vermillion flames engulfed the nights air. Freshly clad in male garments, with a bottle of port immured into my blood, I continued to immerse his house in buckets of ale that fed the flames and my frenzy. Collapsing in a heaving fit of laughter and wrapped in a delusional state of revenge, a forgotten ballad sprung to mind, thus there I drank, and I laughed, and I sang, whilst an edifice of my misfortune slowly burnt to the ground.


“What hell-born fury had possessed,
Thy vile inhuman spirit thus,
What swelling rage was in thy breast,
That could occasion this disgust,
And make thee show such spleen and rage,
Which life can’t cure nor death assuage….”