Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole

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Roadkill

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we spend most of our lives looking at dead things  
becoming breathless, no longer
on cords leading to realness
As if this perception is the way of every world
naming the medium in which life was taken
Our eyes reflecting, a sliver
of gleaming glee from the reaping
a simple life
Taken as
naturalism preordained,
etched on the grave s t o n e
While staring at the carcass
guts spilled out in twisted rope lying in dirty red
an art exhibit,
for the atmosphere to stimulate the mind;
Intellectual,
somber vigils of the profound,
all in the subtext
Jarring until --
Body so bloated, resembling an abandoned wood rocking horse
like the taxidermist had one too many gin and tonics
and decided to experiment with
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Eyes, those beautifully deep windows
Glazed over like dull acrylic beads dipped in acetone
once
a-l-i-v-e
Now, a stinking pile of mangled
flesh and bone


Uncovering layers


Becoming --
Before the final throw of dirt
left
twilight’s hand