God, DNA, Bone Our DNA a polymer implant from our worldly creator, Backbone sidechain nitrogen phosphate And an oesophagus for food easier to swallow than pride. Offal and organs. God sticks in the gullet. Mitochondria In the nostrils. Bonding one cell To another, neuron to neuron to neuron, bone and bone.

My Name Is Lubbert Das I There is (if you care to know), a flower of folly growing On my brain, on the surface of the matter’s deep. Fit for the Fire, its fate is allotted. To be plucked - no - uprooted, And then chucked on the heap. But won’t it hurt? Well, yes, it will, but (And since you must inquire), there is more than one kind of pain. So with steady hand, and clutching his trephine, the doctor will Incise, excise, cut, and splice, and rid me of this fleur du mal. And i

Sin's Body There is in me a Body of Sin: Sin its own heart and lungs, brain-blood-bones- teeth-tongue; a crown of vice adorns the head; channels and ducts convey lust to the secret parts; and the juicy marrow gives much succulence to Sin. Secreting sweat and bile, Sin does its vile work. Possessed, inhabited, I am Sin.

The Humanzee In the heat of a celluloid American night, Doctor Franklin Ahab — host to a crowd of forty souls — walks in a stately manner through the upper rooms of his Massachusetts mansion. He descends the wide staircase, smiling and reeling off witty one-liners. An orchestra plays The Rite of Spring in the enormous dining hall. For a few minutes Ahab casually mingles among his guests, then calls for the conductor to settle down. Hester, his life partner in a transparent d

Embodiment The eye looks, the ear waits, the head turns, the heart aches, the lung breathes, the hand gropes. Skull! cerebral hemispheres! limbic system! basal ganglia! olfactory nerve! eyeball! sinuses! teeth! tongue! ear! vertebral column! brainstem! thyroid! coccyx! spinal cord! sternum! trachea! pleura! aortic valve! pulmonary vein! axilla! radius! metacarpal bones! oesophagus! stomach! colon! liver! renal pyramids! ureters! urine! patellar ligament! femur! sciatic nerv