This close, all I want to do is rip tear bite cut expose the artery, flay the vein eat chew eat tear devour muscle, gobble up viscera, consume until there is nothing left, until meat subsumes the weight of millennia, the bone-beat longing for vengeance, the memory of— My nails dig into his skin, and then I breathe out. I’ve spent so long holding on to this form, so many years stubbornly human.
