ya they say never hand over a knife to the patient
do they say that and no i don't believe that happened
it happened and it's my fault because i thought we were both lucid
it's a personal place a central place
i know this there is symbolic content i feel all that i knew as soon as
as soon as
as soon as i saw you slash so deeply and so far i realized
you realized i slashed
i realized that it would be a symbolic moment and an existential question
not whether or not i'd survive but
right not that but whether or not you could deal with having destroyed
that specialized area
that no one would ever again see the tissue that had connected you to your mother
but now you act like
i'm not acting i'm telling you if i did it you did it it doesn't matter it's still there inside
because it turned out ok right how you mean because it looks like a real navel
no because you are no longer exposed to that reminder of dependency
you could do the same to my mouth so no one could see the hole i have to eat through
already too many of you were caught in an updraft spiraling toward the stadium lights
i'd try and grab your sideburns and let go of her pigtails by doing so
they shouldn't allow friends and family over by the air-conditioning unit for the temporary buildings
not when lightning bolts can crease a sky and stars with no clouds
when the filter is down but not the beacon and the flekes at their hill fires start drumming
a thrill, fear, ice rises from the heart area and perhaps it's a meteor but also a gesture
then it seemed as though we were lost but it was only from each other
we looked at the faces around us and there was newness on both sides as well as being losers
"why?" or "the hell?"
but feel i need a gentler tool, so not
which bad choice, which horrific and all-powerful system
for example, must one coax oneself.
or should personal hygiene just occur naturally.
these are questions i can touch with my beak right now.
like an anteater i can
daintily taste test a single wriggling assertion
or fully tongue the entire org tree including
subterranean levels
those are the ones that house the rankest
tank thinkers mercenary blowhards social
wrecking balls inciters of chaos paralegal
vengeance servers of cause and means
sinister laundries of earnest curiosity
but just one taste is all i ask and i'm tasting
real. sky bitch. musk.
they want to come up here and take that
and not because i'm dirty baby
they use my funk for their discotecas.
think i'm dying for cucumber essence.
claim their fashions suit me best.
the answer and the proof are in my nest.
Ks fly spread eagle!
Jan: Watching you and the other full-bloods i can't help but notice moments when you emerge from your face. Normally your countenance to my nose is mask-like. But maybe i'll mention my husband or the restaurants on the other side of The Crack or ask a stupid question about the Greater Chanks Phenomena, and the mask becomes animated. I respond especially to the muscles around your eyes, which normally don't move at all unless theyr being prodded unexpectedly by a tree in a cloud or an airliner.
Both: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Jan: Yes, i see you now!
Peg: Oh honey.
Jan: But i mean i say that because this observation also reminds me of how different i am despite my putative species how my face compared to yours is overly expressive clown-like hypo-manic.
Peg: ...
Jan: I mean how does that affect the outcomes of everyday encounters how does it
Peg: Yr trying not to do it now aren't you. So i'm not sure i can provide any feedback yet. I'll have to catch you at a less self-conscious moment.
Jan: Oh good luck with that.
Both: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Trans. Phyliss
My trajectory was corrupted
the fabric collapsed
over the top half
of my basket.
No I won't rhyme
basket with casket.
I'm tryna git
the common mirror to write this shit
so i can retire.
by Donna
Was it societal rape being done to him all those years?
How so.
How society basically forced him to engage in sexual intercourse that he did not want. Is that worse than having to be celibate or choosing like Ilyn for spiritual purposes.
Or prostitution. It wasn't against his will.
No, more like with a gun to his head. You choose the lesser evil.
The gun of a specter of persecution poverty shame ostracization.
Yep. No one in recorded history has survived a shunning except a few that became their own scarlet letter.
What?
They survived but they were marked and stunted by their resulting public identity. He'd be at shiv and a Jan would say ya I'm a servant to Mthyuh or another Jan would say ya I'm a zoological hygienist.
Then it would get to his turn and they'd interrupt with ya we know who you are.
Right. He embraced being that guy.
Can you please shove that backhoe out about 20 yards? I need to stretch. Just with your foot there. Thanks.
Flekes Jans priests nobody can get their Braino on it. We have the evidence all around us of this practice belief prejudice crime having been going on for like forever now.
All we have is now Jan.
So right you are darling.
Trans. by Phyliss Ng-Tiu (embedded)
Donna effed up and slashed it open
then closed with fancy stitching
to fashion me a new one
If you're going to have a surgery
on your patio or balcony
you'd better have in mind the men
who like aesthetics now and then
men who keep an inventory
of body parts and piercings for the
off chance of another emergency
or when she's doing residency
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