I don’t know about you, but when biSєxual icon Megan Fox deleted all of her Instagram posts about Machine Gun Kelly, that was my burning of the Library of Alexandria. From the moment that the couple exploded into the public sphere in 2021, I was morbidly fascinated by their antics. It was the type of behavior you’d see from a mallrat couple in the aughts that spent a lot of time at Hot Topic, but performed by A-list celebrities in their 30s, and they were so brave for that. There was the blood vial necklace post, which thankfully remains up on MGK’s Instagram. But sadly, amid the alleged tumult of the relationship, Fox’s wild Instagram captions about her pop punk rapper boo have been lost to the ether.
When was the last time that we got celebrities posting on main about their “torrid, solar flare of a romance” featuring “lots of blood / general mayhem / therapy / tantric night terrors”? (Yes, that’s a real excerpt from one of Fox’s since-deleted posts, thankfully preserved by BuzzFeed.) Or referring to their beloved as their “heart / manifest outside of my body / draped in the towering silhouette of a most unusually handsome boy?”
Thankfully, Fox has announced that her debut poetry book is now available for pre-order. The actor took to Instagram on Tuesday to share the news of Pretty Boys are Poisonous, complete with a very Tumblr-esque cover featuring an illustration of a snake intertwined in a pair of red lips with a vertical labret piercing. She wrote that the 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,” Fox said. “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 idenтιтy by using their voice to illuminate what’s been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness.”
The book’s preorder page additionally shares that it consists of more than seventy poems that chronicle “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.”
While the book is likely about many men throughout Fox’s life, as one of the most baselessly hated celebrities in the aughts, it seems fairly likely that the poems will touch at least partially on her relationship with MGK. The singer did congratulate Fox in the comments, writing, “Proud of you,” accompanied by a flame emoji.
If Fox’s Instagram captions are any indication of her literary output (and that seems fairly likely), I couldn’t be more hyped. As a fellow unhinged biSєxual girlie myself, Megan Fox’s book is frankly, the literary representation I crave. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous will be available for purchase on November 7.