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Skeletal

Sliding fingers over alabaster shafts,

crevices and nooks catching at delving digits

as they seek between the ****** ***** of

remov-ed meat.

 

For before the bones the meat.

And before the meat the scalpel,

Running liquid through the tendrils

with its clever carv-ed lines in the

succulent,

decadent

dead.

 

The gore on the board.

Seen in rivulets of scarlet,

A tracery of cuts,

Multi-layered and exquisite.

 

I taste the smell of this corpulent finery.

Hands reaching into the layers,

slick with blood

pulling at the fat.

Sleek and deadly

I ply them, my tools.

 

For I am the butcher

And you will eat my meat.

Feast upon my carnage,

And leave me with the bones.

 

And leave me with the bones.

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Feb 19, 2011
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