Meat Grinder
strands of gristle laden flesh
mottled snake tongues
kiss and cling
blood bright skin
to skin:
a sloppy robust cable
buckles and slaps wet coils
mounded on waxed paper
at the grinder's foot.
roots of teeth,
knotted ligaments
submit to the dense conic spiral,
heavy metal
churns downwards
mercilessly compressing
history's panicked stadium crowd
that oozes red pulp
through chained link fences,
extruding aliveness from the ghosts
of the oppressors.
stainless steel lungs,
but the grinder is old iron;
the salmon scent of fresh meat,
its saline sickener.
engulfed in self-generated quagmire
"I'm melting", it screams, "melting!"
the pointed hat sighs
and slumps to nothing.
Meat Grinder
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Re: Meat Grinder
fantastic and grisly, just like Leonard Cohen