How Much the Jaw Weighs

POSTHUMOUS PREEMPTS

In the War on Drugs, shoot heroin first.

Support your local anesthetic.

Send Santa wishlist envelopes
stuffed with anthrax.

Predict memories
using only posthumous preempts.

Until then, step on the cracks in puberty’s concrete
throat.

Prey on wild hunters.

Your bloodline’s half-arachnid since learning to crawl.

Find a sturdy stool sample to stand on so you can
reach the laxatives in the cupboard.

In the family of revolutions (a family that eats in
separate rooms) stalk movement to movement
asking for spare change.

Adopt two mystics to play ping pong with your third eye.

Keep them in cages of hypodermic,
barbed-wire lashes,
chalk stubs for teeth to sketch an illegible signature
on every breath’s blackboard
with the upper hand others use to jerk off.

Stick your finger in a creative outlet.

Chalk it up to an outline.

—originally published in >Kill Author