intestines
mutants
God
rheum
machinery
steam
winter
heaven
bacteria
trilobites
islands
owls
blood
rash
Japan
energy
surgical rubber
Fallopian tubes
boredom
infection
meat
death
fat
cats
rain
doctors
shrines
elephantiasis
parking lots
urine
***special bonus poem***
abortion
dogs
impetigo
lampreys
Caucasians
geodesic domes
kittens
Europe
stripmalls
worms
planes
raccoons
freaks
babies
crash
soil
subways
topology
foreskin
blood in a bucket
It was all over everything - on the TV, under the Chesterfield.
“Just let it die,” she said, standing stone straight beneath the death ray fluorescents,
“I don’t want to pay those vet bills.”
She was the perfect Caucasian – blue, melt water eyes quivering in the creases of her gypsum face.
We started in on the dissection. When we got right down to the lower reaches, we found this little fetus.
It was rock hard but there it was, staring at us with the same blue eyes.
I wrapped it in some tissues and plopped it into the bucket.
Everybody applauded, but I tried to put it out of my mind.
It’s all over now, I guess.