2 lines of purple –

not the type leaving you

to call mom and dad

happy crying in your fiat 500,

on a thursday night

after throwing up at your

hot yoga class –

and telling them,

it wasn’t, in fact,

the rainbow bowl.

2 lines of purple,

causing cascades of

of mascara,

and highlighter

called pink climax

running down cheeks,

soaking caramel braids

and freckled dimples.

2 lines of purple,

a “you’re just bloated”

leading to red wine

on white linen –

because you opened the front door.

Lara C. Widmann was born in 1997. She graduated from Ludwig-Maximilians University with a degree in German philology in 2022. In 2021 she spent her year abroad in England, where she studied English and Creative Writing at the university of Exeter. She has recently been published by the Decadent Review. Currently, she attends medical school in Germany.