5/15/12

MORTUARY ACE





hello, the dead

hello, non-muslim feeling
bad about his skeleton

hello, the pressed into boxes

hello, the trussed up in sacks
the roped up like hams

hello, skulls bobbing in boiling pots

hello, sparrows wrangling over
scraps of lung

hello, patented spring-closure coffins

hello, coffins outfitted with
cast iron corpse straps

hello, patchouli and cardamom
post-anthropology
well past the gates
of cadaverdom

hello, blue silt wriggling
beneath blue skin

hello, mirrors

hello, wax casts

hello, carrion
carrying saline messages

hello, eleven seconds
and still blinking

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