The Agency
they want your
candy coated
neon blood, they
want to bottle
your youth
for grey days
they want your
doe eyes, frightened
& naive, they want your
buttercream skin, they
want your scent
to be luscious
they want your
rose petal lips,
your piercing
collar bones, they want
your brows frozen
in vaporous dream
they want your lie,
they want to sell
you as theirs, they want
your innocence crunching
in their black-lit teeth
they want you dead, they want
you gasping, they want you
silent & malleable, they
want you seen, storm rattled,
they want you glowing
they want you, they want
that thing you grip
like a lifeline, that invisible
something no one can name
that in the absence of
you’d be nothing
Image by Artist and zabiyaka from Pixabay
Note: Inspired by ‘The Neon Demon’ (2016)
Thistle Thoughts 
This is a great piece! Love this one.
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Thanks, Cypress 💜
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They don’t want everything. They want it all.
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Great!
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Thank you
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Wow. That’s dark, Jennifer.
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The film is excellent, & extremely dark. I recommend. Thank you so much for reading!
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Love how you wrote this truth.
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Than you. Have you seen the film? I loved it so much.
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Loved this poem’s rebellious spirit! It reminded me of Kafka. Very dark and disturbing! Like the nightmare of living in a police state!
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That’s a neat take. Thanks, Dominic.
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Welcome Jennifer!
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I didn’t realize this was crafted with a movie in mind, so I looked up “The Agency” on IMDB. Is it about the 1980 movie? Also: this was a powerful poem, made me think of “1984” with a vampiric government.
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No, the film is ‘The Neon Demon’ from 2016. But, I’ll have to check that one out because I haven’t seen it.
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I haven’t seen either movie, so please don’t take my mention of it as an endorsement. But it might be good 🙂
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I see it has Robert Mitchum in it so it may be promising! ☺️
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Love it! I haven’t seen the movie, but this made me think of social media’s effects on young women for some reason. How they package and commodify things. Great poem, Jennifer!
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The film is pretty dark & about modeling in LA. Thanks for reading!
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