Under the Knife

Razorblades and steak knives
Perform surgical renditions
Of all the inner coverings
Having this one violated
calls for a conflictive vocation

So skin me like you can
Then steal away my strength
Blood flows through my veins
Just like the rivers in your arms

With my performative intentions
You seem to always mention
The truest of my goals
To sit on the pedestal
looking down from above

There is a complex ever present
That I seem to always mention
Taking away from substantial things

I want substantial things

I want

I want substance

Brian Gillis
July 16th 2008