The Worms in My Brain Watch David Cronenberg’s The Fly
what’s wrong with
removing
your skin like
a cocktail dress
to reveal
something stronger
than petty rubber
look the disease in its mouth and
a love story
stares back
a new philosophy to
ooze and sizzle at your feet
sloshing to
and fro inside a greening
wound like a clapper
in a bell
a man in the machine
he doesn’t fully understand
a kiss that melts the mouth
ripening it
for the new mouth
removing
your skin like
a cocktail dress
to reveal
something stronger
than petty rubber
look the disease in its mouth and
a love story
stares back
a new philosophy to
ooze and sizzle at your feet
sloshing to
and fro inside a greening
wound like a clapper
in a bell
a man in the machine
he doesn’t fully understand
a kiss that melts the mouth
ripening it
for the new mouth
Jordan Ranft is a writer living in NYC. He has been previously published in Bodega, Bayou, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere.
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