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Don’t Become Me

David Hernandez

I kept a bowie knife
after the sheriff
kicked me out of my foreclosed house.

With it, I stabbed his chest,
cutting a line from the waist down.
With my bare hands,
I ripped open the rib cage,
cleaved the arms and legs off the body,
saving the extra meat for the next day.

I took a few chomps out of a heart, held in my palm,
blood dripping down my shirt.

A few eyes and their extensions, tied together,
dangled from my neck.

I pulled the organs from the body,
laughing, trembling uncontrollably,
the meat lying in front of me,
giving me a flesh-eating virus,
eating away my neck.

The tremors grew worse,
the laughter more unstable,
I soon lost control of my muscles.
Unable to speak or swallow my food,
I sat, waiting, unresponsive to my surroundings,
not even able to lift my head or breathe through it.

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