you will meet your evil passions

This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on a page of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. The background is predominantly drawn over in black marker. Select words and phrases have been left uncovered, creating a new poetic message against the dark background. A semi-sheer sticker of the moon is pasted to the bottom of the page, revealing parts of the original page that do not pertain to the blackout poem.

By Erin Domke-Harris

you will meet your evil passions

I swear to you, by the earth which I inhabit,

my life will flow quietly away, and, in my dying moments, I

wish; but when I looked upon,
when I saw the filthy mass
my feelings were altered
I had no right to withhold
my power
I said, you already
show malice that make me distrust you

the love of another will destroy
My vices
I shall feel
the affections and become linked to

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