The most awful thing is to stare at images of human organs
diseased or
otherwise
and taste the similarity to morsels of fatty steak
with just
the eyes
I went through a portfolio
of cystic and solid neoplasms
until all I saw were bits of good hamburger meat
- glistening jewels of fat next to juicy bits
mouth slavering
but then confused and disgusted when
standing up
I felt the meat inside
me
squeeze together
and my body turning to sausage
and imagined holding my mother's pancreas
just another sweet meat
pathetic in cold air
a primitive ugliness
deranged by tears