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The Worms in My Brain Explain Modern Masculinity
man can mean wall
but never breath.
he eats himself like
a communion wafer;
recursive as the
ideas he is taught.
the father begets
the son and the son
eats the idea (father).
it's a disease
it's a metaphor for itself.
you will be the body or
the shadow pinned beneath it.
become the poison
before it kills you.
identity describes
a wet breath
that hovers behind a wall.
man is outside right now
flipping your car over
& howling in the street.
he hasn't written
anything that wasn't
some kind of war.
every tool must be
sculpted with flame.
the forest burns
before you name its flowers.
