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Dana Levin

SCHOOL OF FLESH

SCHOOL OF FLESH

SCHOOL OF FLESH

      And blush for a cheek of stone.   

      Blush for the lips sewn tight with thread, no speech
for the dead   
      maker—   

      
      You’ve got the razor. You can make each suture
snap.   

      
      And watch the mouth   
bloom up with foam,   
      as if he’d drowned himself in soap—   

      You lift the neck and let the head drop back.   
The mouth yawns wide its prize—   

      
      White thrive.   
The larval joy.   
      Hot in their gorge on the stew of balms,   
a moist exhale—   
      as if there were a last breath, a taunt   
coiling   
      into your inner ear, Good Dog, you dig your hands in,   
up-cupping   
      the glossal   
bed—   

      
      saying, Graduate   
of the School of Flesh,   
      Father Conspirator—   


      I will learn it.   
      I will bite the tongue from the corpse.
Dana Levin

Dana Levin

(Verenigde Staten, 1965)

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SCHOOL OF FLESH

      And blush for a cheek of stone.   

      Blush for the lips sewn tight with thread, no speech
for the dead   
      maker—   

      
      You’ve got the razor. You can make each suture
snap.   

      
      And watch the mouth   
bloom up with foam,   
      as if he’d drowned himself in soap—   

      You lift the neck and let the head drop back.   
The mouth yawns wide its prize—   

      
      White thrive.   
The larval joy.   
      Hot in their gorge on the stew of balms,   
a moist exhale—   
      as if there were a last breath, a taunt   
coiling   
      into your inner ear, Good Dog, you dig your hands in,   
up-cupping   
      the glossal   
bed—   

      
      saying, Graduate   
of the School of Flesh,   
      Father Conspirator—   


      I will learn it.   
      I will bite the tongue from the corpse.

SCHOOL OF FLESH

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