By Karina Bush
Living my karma
Via you
I asked to be degenerate
And life brought
Your constant dissolution
I chose my
Innate ability to harm myself
Can learn every lesson but this selfish
Drive to have the spectrum
Of intense
Like karma
My punishment memory Is long
When your time comes
Don’t cry for sympathy
You picked first
You were fully grown
You entered our vow to
Execute sufficient misery
*Art work provided by Karina Bush
Karina Bush is an Irish writer and visual poet, born in Belfast and now living in Rome. She is the author of three books, ‘BRAIN LACE’ (BareBackPress, 2018), ‘50 EURO’ (BareBackPress, 2017), and ‘MAIDEN’ (48th Street Press, 2016). She is currently finishing up a collection of stories set in Belfast, a story from this collection was recently published by Akashic Books. For more visit her website karinabush.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karinabushxx/.
