death
i see in your teeth
the limbs of all people
being chewed and eaten
you are consuming everything
you are killing everything
can you please turn back
into my friend
burial
a revelation is seeing the body
of a deceased sibling
a beautiful child dressed in lace
whose face has been retouched to the point
where by contrast you look at them
in an ideal state of total putrefaction
maggots and other orgiastic eating machines
suffering and inflicting suffering
everything must die
before it can be honored
ossuary
not all death decays
skeletal remains settle
in the ocean
bone becomes rock
buried deep
in temporary graves
the earth’s crust
made of bodies
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Benjamin DeVos is a 23-year-old writer from Philadelphia. His work has been published in Reality Beach, Alien Mouth, Word Riot, decomP, and other places. His collection of short stories Madness Has a Moment and Then Vanishes Before Returning Again was published over the summer with Dostoyevsky Wannabe.