Vertical incision from sternum to pelvis--

check this box if you like what you see.

Force feeding people your pathology is selfish--

ripping organs everywhere, screaming Look at me.

Little bits of liver stuck with toothpicks on a platter--

marinated samples that you couldn't give away.

Lying on a busy street corner with a candle

lighting up the organs that you're putting on display.

Cheap price tags. Take One sign.

Heart strings spell: You break it, you buy.

You make out laughs as cars speed by.

Some just can't look, and you ask Please try?

Readers juggle kidneys, put them back out of place,

jump rope with your intestines, throw them back in your face.

Sweet old lady palms your pancreas, cries

What a well formed gallbladder!, purses

her lips when this doesn't happy you up.

Fungal, staphylococcal, angina infections,

pulmonary edema, pneumonia, and sepsis,

by way of all the pain, one cold hard lesson:

writing should be more than just plain self expression.

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Express your thoughts on self expression.

General, specific, positive, negative, emotional, logical, literal, metaphorical, whatever you like. Doesn't necessarily have to be a poem.

Hopefully this will turn into something like a hall of mirrors.

Or just die expeditiously. That'd be ok too. =)

updated Aug 23 '10 by SeeThomasHowl