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A visual cacophony
This beautiful thing
To die a violent death could
Bring
an end to this begin-
ning.
A dismal dismantling
Of internal organs
weighed and measured to the gram
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stuffed back into an empty cavity where they’d remain
Unattached.
And.
.Unadorned but for cotton bracelets
and zip lock bags.
!A macabre fresco of
birthmarks,
stretch marks,
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freckles,
scars
and moles;
photographed and inspected as if the person that once lived
-there-
would have wished
but to be carved apart
Like a corn-fed turkey.
blood drained and a second-rate cosmetologist attempts to restore a corpse by caking on theater make-up that lingers in fingernails and wrinkles and rolls.
Ushered into uncomfortable pews
they tried not to laugh at the
caricature
Original Rant
that sort of resembled someone they used to know.
The family
of A living memory of this dead thing
To live in those that loved
the two sides of Rant © 2010
Until they too were just a beautiful ugly thing
Then just a name
On a mailing list.
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