"Swallow"

Feel the languid blade cut across mastodonic flesh
Immobile hemoglobin sploodges out like stolid salmon in a jacuzzi
I didn't invent pain.
I carry it with me like a frantic slumberous ooze of nevermore.
I wield it, poised, beseeching mutilation
I trade it, poised, at the arts and crafts show
For the souls of nonbeseechers of nevermore.
Swallow