Destructional devotional
I pray to the gods of childhood
To the lack of learnt empathy
To the tasted worms and dirt
The smooshed and mangled snails
The salted slugs disembowelling themselves
The cicadas crushed to see what’s inside
The broccoli eaten with squishy caterpillar garnish
The bug pined to a board and legs slowly pulled off
The walk that was once a fly painfully making its way toward death
That small lizard from the backyard in a shoe box slowly starving to death
That frog found in the cabbage that the cat was let to eat
That monarch butterfly cocoon that was cut open to see how it happened
That small furry animal that wouldn’t run the right way, so it was beaten against the ground
Oh, gods hear me and expunge the memories from my brain
Absolve me of my sins so that I came become whole again
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