Eyes like overturned Jack-o-lanterns
Lids peeling backwards, hysterical
As a fish mutely mouthing oxygen
Lips as thin as a Butcher’s wire drawn
Back in a panicked snarl over anemic
Gums and teeth nested like a bear trap.
Sebaceous flesh riddled with detaching
Pustules, raw as a hyde-stripped deer
Or an amateurishly applied Hellraiser
Visage peeling, dripping downward,
This face as sobering as a suicide
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Impish limbs spindling, delicate jutting
From tumescent core, the tide-battered
Body of a week old surfer, a fruit pregnant
With decay and ethylene, a fleshless spine
Curved outward like a child-bearing hip
Fingers like the black arthritic roots of an
Oxidized tree, nails pulled free at the seams
Vulnerable beds like unprepared livers, sick
Toxic emanations as subtle as sewage
From intestines grotesquely exposed
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Such was the vision I found upon waking
No memories forthcoming to clarify the
Acquisition of this cadaverous mantle, no
Means of extraction, unzipping the costume
Surely worn. Thankfully numb a static wire of
Prickling infestation as if ants were being
Fired across my synapse in a futuristic hive
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Blinds crashing sharply, locks sinking into
Metal pockets, telephones dismantled entirely
Clothes indistinguishable from flesh, left
On for a skeleton-stripping shower, bleached
Bones surely an improvement to this crucible
Of repugnant human soup offensively sloshing
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I chose a significantly less disgusting image because well I didn’t want to see this lol I was still manic when I wrote this
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