they get all their blood drained after they’re dead, then get filled back up with the medical version of antifreeze, their lips and eyes glued shut, their fingernails painted, makeup brushed onto their faces, their new perm hairsprayed so hard it’s like a helmet against the worms. Not that the worms can even get that close anymore. After the airtight casket’s bolted shut, it’s lowered into a concrete box. Dig one of these corpses up ten or twenty years later, and it’ll look just the same. Unless you touch it, need to see the jelly your mom or your brother’s become. It wasn’t always like this,
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