DADDY & MOMMY ARE ZOMBIES

and are eating
us up
from the inside--
let them.
Let them eat
the rancid meat
of your heart and lungs and
brain and kidneys and liver;
let them feast
on the poisons
they gave you
willingly
or not.

Step from yourself
and create
a self.
Even if you have to
make it up.
But do it.
Be a murderer,
a bricklayer,
a speaker
in tongues,
an alchemist,
a carpenter,
a used car salesman,
a model
of disease,
a seamstress,
a governess,
a pillager
of boundaries.
But do it.
A self.
Yourself.
A self
who will
love me.

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2013