So did anyone else feel like the title card for Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood music video, with her lying on a crushed car after jumping from a skyscraper, was a fairly repulsive appropriation of the infamous photograph of Evelyn McHale’s body, taken after she jumped from the Empire State building?
-posted on Tumblr
A white scarf drifts in the morning sky
her gray cloth coat sleeps on the railing
and she like a long dark bird descends
clutching her pearls
Evelyn wants only to die
to die
Taylor Swift and I
say girlfriend please
Evelyn leaves black and white pictures behind
and she like a ghost steps into the sky
clutching her pearls
such a beautiful end
Evelyn says let me die
let me die
no service no tears
ashes to ashes
we say no Taylor Swift and I
so haunting so sad
no way girlfriend
her black leather purse waits by the railing
Evelyn leaves a letter behind
no prayers and no coffin
Evelyn wants only to be forgotten
she steps from the railing and Evelyn passes
through white hot clouds and morning sky
to die
to die
and we say no
too bad girlfriend
clutching our pearls
Taylor Swift and I
scatter her wishes as if they were ashes.