Black Petals Issue #112 Summer, 2025

Casey Renee Kiser: Dead Girls

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Dead Girls Don’t Kick Back it’s true

 

Casey Renee Kiser

 

                   You wanna take me to dinner now

                   even though you buried us long ago

                   Gimme that damn menu;

                   Lemme see what’s cookin’...nah

                   I don’t fall in love with my killer

 

                   I fall in love with them falling

                   finally for me

                   I can wear that dress you liked

                   A dead girl dances just killing time, ha!

                   Wasted precious heart- so much blood

                   on the table, on the dancefloor

                   Lemme do a spin for you…

                   Won’t have my death a la’ carte, babe

                   Let’s party; raise my hands in the air

                   until you call my Lizzy

 

                   I remember all your hard work

                   The late night shoveling; all the dirt,

                   and the final kick to my back

                   Darling, the grave you dug for me

                   will do for you quite nicely

                   Let me do a one more spin, babe

                   I won’t need to kick back,

                   you’ll be dizzy, you’ll be falling

                   for me. I remember those eyes

                      as I stood on the edge that night-

                   they whispered Get in there bitch          

                   Now, keep your eyes on the shortness

                   of my dress

                   to keep your mind off the shortness

                   of your breath. Dinner and dancing?!

                   And don’t act surprised when you get

                   everything you wanted

                   Listen, the moon may be discreet

                   but it always takes names

Casey Renee Kiser is the author of over twenty poetry collections. Her work has also been featured in indie compilations, punk zines, and online. Authentic and delightfully strange, she is a fierce diy poet and artist. Her latest collections are N igh tMARE Crush and Altered States of The Unflinching Souls with J. J. Campbell. 

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