/lit/ - Literature

What do arthoes read nowadays?

Is this a good poem?

if i forced on you a scalpel
would you use it as i say
i’ll sit still while you penetrate
and slowly slice the flesh away

milking from my skull with your
acquiescent touch
burrow deeper, quickly, faster—
at any moment this’ll be too much

for me to take
clutching arm as you descend
latex stings, drill bit sings
digging into brain until it bends

now, please, for me
i’ll say, with incandescent whine
extract my anger from the sinew
pluck my lust destroy my pride

do these things make me a man
asks my ego, lurid leech
latching fast onto the stem with my
malice and my greed

my contempt does me no favours
tied tight to intensity
it looks too much like passion
so they’re all taken from me

with a swoop and rip
assertion dead after ire
cunning cut from contemplation
so this is what they all admire

and then fill the empty space
with some cotton and some web
stitch me up with twine
tie a bow atop my mangled head

and then everything’s fine

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