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Hellicatessen

Posted by By Michael Arnzen May 1, 2005Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

the demonic butcher
asked me how I liked
it sliced as he hefted
the dripping live squealer
out from the rotisserie
with his carbuncular carving
hooves and I noticed it was
pregnant when I answered
paper-thin, please, paper-thin

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