anxiety guillotine, hanging from a thread, suspended above my sunburnt neck. i'm utterly spent. another day, back bent in the stocks, latched in for the Kafka-esque:
carnivalesque body-horror. shovel white-hot daggers beneath finger-nail keratin. bite my tongue off with police-tape teeth. sadist, savor my godless screams.
drawn and quartered. send my limbs to the map's furthest corners. horseflies' aborted eggs nest amidst maggot-infested intestines, dangerously dangling.
turn my frown upside down. stick a razor-blade in my mouth and pull 'till i grin like chelsea.
interned within an unmarked grave, save for the cairn made from the same stones i flung myself upon from a great height. a wave dashed against the rocks, endlessly rebuffed— the sea's clairvoyance couldn't budge the boulder.
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?