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Christopher Perry

Apr 2—2025
Poetry
Still conscious in theatre
Your operation is being performed
By two morticians
Seeking to embalm you
While you fight for breath
War, your anaesthetist
Turns up the gas
As these crowbeaks
Scavenging your convulsing flesh
Squabble over your vitals

~

CLP 02/04/2025

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