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FirstAwake
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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September 08
Title
Hierophant
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Three's
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Actor, writer, designer, fortune's fool. Recovering Mormon, recovered overachiever. Currently employed as Wardrobe Supervisor at a big-ass theater in a small-ass town. Except that we hosted the Olympics that one time. So, big-ish town. Also, I ramble. Self-knowledge is my strongest and weakest suit. Approaching singularity from the wrong side of time. Everyone thinks I'm just great. Everyone. Even you.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2009 3:51PM

My aunt threatened to eat my face (poem)

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 Written after witnessing a terrifying scene at a public park. Please to enjoy.  

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FAMILY REUNION

 

i’m gonna eat your FACE

(isn’t he just the living end

the spitting image

the cutest thing)

come back here, you’re so CUTE

RRRRRRRRRRRR

i’ll snick-snack off all your fingers like perfect little pretzels,

sink my teeth into each tender cheek

grab your hair in silken handfuls

and peel the scalp back from your living skull

 

i could eat you all in one sitting

i’m so much bigger than you are, little snack

snick-snack

you’d hardly be a mouthful

(your mom’s sitting right over there, she said

i could have you for my own

snack,

she’s got too many she said, take him

and a few more for the road

and she’s not gonna help you)

C’MERE

i’m gonna eatcha gonna eatcha HAHAHAHA

i gotcha, iiiiiii gotcha

and now i’m gonna EAT YA

oh stop crying

you’re ok and anyways

didn’t you learn something just now

didn’t i teach you something you didn’t know

about love

 

 

 

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i can picture this scene! of course i say this as an aunt =) but i don't think i would feel comfortable in this little scenerio...yikes.
Well, as an uncle i've been the terrifying carnivorous figure more than once. I wrote this remembering how it felt to be overwhelmed by people who I had just met who shared nothing more than blood with me, and also based on the look on that poor kid's face. But it won't keep me from pretending to eat my nieces' toes.
great point. a little cannibalism amongst families seems like a necessary growth experience.