exploration, they said –
as hundreds test and probe and intrude
cold, ruthless eyes, desperate and starving and hungry for something that she can
never
understand.
… now, onto the actual operation
phase one: semi-autogenous grinding
and look! even the government has bought you
she should feel honored at this disgusting breach of privacy
but her blizzard-screams are soundless, shapeless
almost music to their ears
bagatelles in their conquest of her body’s demesne
a protest of rebellion, one rightfully muzzled.
~
she lies now, silently, sprawled and defenseless
on ancient Chinese grounds
as something divided, something conquered
as an empty shell of something once precious
with her skin ragged and
t
o
r
n
by all the machines and devices
used to torture her soul
because her body is only a canvas
grains punctured with drill holes
as they dig up her insides
and sell them for gold.
