Recite: reticence Now assume the corpse pose Neglect all past debts Recalcitrant egoist Sanguine gradients From the years of discontent Prepare: retrofit From the malign skin-graft treatment Your hopes Parasitic, imitations Of your burned out, washed out, Wedding photos Recite: resentment Etch glyphs on the void Calling it honesty Virtue signaling the end of this acrimony Invoke your mother's tongue Collegiate articulation Of a glass labyrinth staging Your next public humiliation If you're so free Who's to blame For feeling This way New body, new shame New divorce, new family name New kids, new day Another way to disdain New body, new shame Another day to Forget my name