V Corbet

RIGOR MORTIFICATION

come with me.    the wet
chamber.       bathed
in absence.     the lust of regress-
-ion. come
where the bell sounds within.     and
something grows.    still

what lives here feeds on.    what-
-does it really?    and the shame.    a shovel,
the snowfall.   in lines.   this sinew.  
                                        this bone—and material
                                                                  and praxis

an architecture living.     and fed on
wild furniture.    how they roam
                   and bleed
their bodies into carpet!
rotting.    the couches are running
on highways of meat.    groaning,
       and what brought you?
       wild thing, you steak.  in the hvac?

with the air inflected with sorrow.   hideous
what breathes life fallow, soft.      
forgive me
or i'll die among the end.     tables set
this dinner
for all.     this eat of me
                                      -   flesh   -

the corpse
and process. rigor mort-
-ify      mortis.       mort-
-ification, baby.       i'm all you want

tunneling & treasure.   what wealth inside
my wet wet body.    the murmuring marrow 

what you scavenge inside me
       my heavy-tar heart


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