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Gouge Out Their Eyes

Janet Kuypers
(01/23—/12)

looking forward to my little ritual,
I searched out my next victim

and gain gratification by gaining
total control over someone else

looked forward to getting them alone
and cutting out the top of their head

driving my knife through their skull,
cutting down to their fleshy intellect

so I could scoop out their brains
feel bits of the organ in my bare hands

clear out their skull,
make them hollow

gouge out their eyes
open their mouth wide

so the world could see
how empty my victims now were

I didn’t do this often
otherwise I might have been caught

all these years
of debasing someone weaker

this was my little ritual
and I was ready to share my secret

with just the right person,
to help me get rid of the remains

to revel with me
in this
                little game I play

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I found someone,
I confided with them

and they told me this
was against their religion

I begged,
I pleaded

and the only way
they would join me

is if they could take the skull
and throw it from a buiding roof

after we were done
dismembering them

you know,
to further destroy the evidence

and I agreed

so we drank in the sewer
and drew up our plan

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that may have been
one of the last times

I did this to someone,
because it really was fun —

in the middle of the night,
when no one else was around —

watching their hollow skull
splatter on the ground

I think it was closure,
the final piece to this ritual

where after so much destruction,
I could say my work was done

 

(this is a poem about a pumpkin)

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