Pretty Boys Are Poisonous

Poems

Megan Fox

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781668050422
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Heartbreaking…Go read the book, everyone.” —Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcast

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process.

“These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I’ve spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what’s been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness,” says Fox.

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous marks the powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time. Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most deliciously compelling and addictive books you’ll read all year.

Table of contents

• cover
• title page
• letter to reader
• the indoctrination of a hopeless romantic
• fucked-up fairy tales
• pretty boys are poisonous
• lessons in hot-boy demonology
• eros
• rape
• greek tragedies lose their poetry when you live them
• i would die for y— oh, j/k lol
• 4:46 am
• the avarice pursuit of money power and glory
• a 32-year-old narcissist quantifies his crimes
• why i have insomnia
• to marry an arsonist
• manic-depressive peter pan
• snow white and the complacent rock star
• a beautiful boy is a deadly drug
• the price of fame: one dead soulmate
• don’t worry darling
• true love’s kiss was a cancer not a cure
• 8 of swords reversed
• an angel with a fully automatic
• seventy times seven
• it’s giving patrick bateman
• the fall
• the last will and testament of a selfish prick
• coercive persuasion
• fatality
• martyrdom vs. monotony
• the first rule of fight club
• the devil wears dolce
• the art of becoming an accessory
• the emperor’s new apathy
• leading a lamb to slaughter
• i am prince charming
• one hour at a time
• i am ashes
• 3:33 a.m.
• veritas
• i’ve always liked serpents
• karmic pattern
• lemniscate
• all in circles
• you wanted marilyn monroe but you got joan of arc instead
• the truth about lilith
• i didn’t sign up to compete in your bullshit beauty pageant
• hell hath no fury
• a slippery relationship with the truth
• your optical illusion
• the loneliest king
• you’d be so much more handsome if you’d get an exorcism
• boys without mothers
• the werewolf attempts to apologize posthumously
• funerals are for lovers
• unrealized potential
• pomegranates for sale
• the stepford wife
• a 6-foot-4 damsel in distress
• 7, the number of completion
• false prophets
• i’m not sorry
• i’m not sure that god agrees
• but maybe if we use a black light we could still find all the stains you left on me
• an apparition in a miniskirt
• oxycodone and tequila
• prove it, orpheus
• an involuntary immersive experience
• you should have finished the job
• absolution
• the book of mary magdalene
• the wolf
• why i wish i was gay
• the ghost of christmas future
• mirror
• photosynthesis
• labyrinth
• i
• ii
• about the illustrator
• about the author
• copyright