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Glass Jars

Have you ever seen your organs on display? it's quite... mesmerizing a.... disturbed euphoria if you will The first item that I gazed upon was my heart, it's beat ever flowing in a rapid succession of strings and multiple palpitations I smashed the displayed counter and with my left hand I grabbed my heart and with my right, a knife.... My heart mocked me I knew it wanted attention it wanted lust.... so I took the knife that was in my right hand and severed the left.... all while my lips kissed the blade... it licked the blood... mesmerized by it's crimson hue my eyes leaped to the floor and tangoed with my lust filled companions On the other side I spotted my intellectual adversary - my brain I laid down the knife, took the jar and smashed it against the wall the shrapnel laid scattered My brain was contorted... cut into a million pieces so I took the knife and cut off my skin a million threads to be exact I took a piece of glass and poked a hole though my skin.... I took the million pieces of brain and sew it back together with the million pieces of skin I grabbed the knife again.... the ears overheard the mouth pandering to itself that it wanted to be with the heart I took the knife that was in my right hand and cut off my lips while my left hand tangoed, my eyes gazed and my brain pondered I grabbed my left hand with my right hand and with my left hand held by my right hand I grabbed my brain and with my brain held by my left hand who itself was held by my right hand grabbed the lips and plastered it on to act as the voice of reason my heart took the shrapnel and cut itself a mouth.... The two ponder and bickered quarrel and squabbled the eyes gazed and the hands tangoed the heart whispered to the eyes to tell the hands to grab the brain The brain whispered to the hands to tell the eyes to look at the heart the eyes and hands wanted no part so they waltz to forget their worries the brain and the heart stared and pondered gazed upon the hands and eyes, both grab the shrapnel who ordered the left hand to grab the heart, who grabbed the brain The brain stabbed the hands and the heart stabbed the eyes both gazed and ponder upon the butchery they waltz and after the waltz the brain ordered the left hand to grab the knife and stab the heart the brain grabbed the knife from the left hand and the brain stabbed the brain....

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