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Artist: Illegal Boyfriend Title: 15 Envelopes Release #: MIF197 Release Date: May 21, 2011 Format: Printed poem in painted envelopes How to Finish Her Off If your life has become a terrible bone or just fangs at the end of a spine white as bone, dry & dull & dead as a drawer full of knives. If you’ve vague space before death in which you twitch & use pain to scratch her name with your nails in dust, while the cock with one claw spells it again while his brain lies limp on the butchering block. If the snake scribes her ehsss over again & again while the gardener wipes the ax on his boot. If you obsess for the worm that wiggled in dread too long after getting halved by your grandpap’s knife and now you’re just nerves that writhe like bait you were slapped for dumping out of his boat. If Joy’s a nibble of meat then abruptly a jolt —your tongue torn—ripped— as if metal ate into your throat, then say it again, what it is, her name, use pliers to pull out that hook— |