3 reasons i love Jennifer's Body

i.

ugh / the mouthness of it / stuffing her face post-rape / with an entire rotisserie chicken / some people afterwards cannot feel / clean / Jennifer cannot feel / full / of that skewered flesh / thigh by the handful / no knife no fork on the kitchen floor / coughing blood after each mouthful / the toothsomeness of afterwards / yet again i have survived it / bring me a bird / earthed / whole / to tear / wing from wing / to fill this mouth / to fill this /

ii. when the man raising the cleaver / calls her Tiffany / O / our interchangeable butcherability / spitting out her gag / over their laughter / she speaks gently / firmly / and she says / my name is / Jennifer

iii.

Jennifer says she hates boxing movies / me too girl / men winning what / like Lycra ain't camp so long as someone's spitting blood / except wait / that Hugh Jackman sci- fi utopia / men replaced by robots / robots boxing animals / i like that / i like the heifer maddened / unbranded / i like her neck brawn-knotted like old trees / the glinting husk split by a single hoof / the cry of the beast reverberating / through this steel future / without men / i like men / beaten by steel beaten by creature / i like this future / its bellow / but otherwise Jennifer / me too

A V Bridgwood

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