Homo Vivisectus
1 Minute Read Time
cut along the dotted
line between fingers hands
earlobes we who alone
have lashes
on both lids make a ventral incision
remove the pretense
from tense find
the collective firing pattern
in heap or mass we exact
ourselves grain by rain-
glitter grain from anthill ziggurat
to fecundity of compass points
extracted out of the animal
parry apart
appendages the patents
pending such unravelers
of our own entrails
divination by divvying up
the digits cut corners reapportioned
as hazarded time gouts clots
such clumsy butchers
of our own embodiment cutting
across the joints object
lessons ripping
open the whole cabinet of curiosity
of cruelty with our bare rib spreaders
rack and pinion pruning hook
to dowsing rod circular saw to dentist’s drill
doxologists of double exposure
mobbing words
in their plurals pinnate leafing
up from the tongue
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