How To Discard The Life You've Now Ruined - Lara Glenum

HOW TO DISCARD THE LIFE YOU’VE NOW RUINED

Sneak in to the “shame hole”

Remove the squirming pink sack from the gray pelt

& put a second body inside

or hang the body from a telegraph wire that transmits instructions

to those who’ve drowned in an automatic wind

while choking on state-licensed vision cloths

Hang the loose skin in a weeping museum

Use the smallest bones as buttons

Sew the buttons onto your face & pose in several helmets

Or collect the larger bones & make a stylish 4’ x 6’ cage

Plant the nerve-cords in window-boxes

Let them trail down like vines outside your new home

In the evenings

Use the spine as a flute to play

the soft nationalistic marches of the “bodies without organs” collective

Make tiny beasts out of the teeth & strands of black hair

Sew the animals into your stomach

Advertise your crimes as “the failings of a zoo”

Tack the two legs onto your own hips &

gallop through zones of agony

Now you’re a four-legged animal downed in the onslaught

You’re a weeping brute clogging the light-hole

in the eye of the sun