Diary Entry #7
I bite my lover’s ulcerous leg.
I pet him with the severed hand—the hand that kills me, and its palm sprouts a
pair of lips that tenderly kiss his dirt-covered feet, and I shudder, from
ecstasy or envy, I do not know which.
A dog or another type of animal comes over to us, and he leaves his skin on the
ground. We caress his bare form. I lick his bare paws, stroke his bare neck. The
creature hums, and now I am sure it is a wolf or a bear, with a voice like
Dionysus. I lie down on his discarded skin and it wraps around me. I cannot
breathe. I cannot take it off.
I am no longer human.
I never see this lover again.
I bite my lover’s ulcerous leg.
I pet him with the severed hand—the hand that kills me, and its palm sprouts a
pair of lips that tenderly kiss his dirt-covered feet, and I shudder, from
ecstasy or envy, I do not know which.
A dog or another type of animal comes over to us, and he leaves his skin on the
ground. We caress his bare form. I lick his bare paws, stroke his bare neck. The
creature hums, and now I am sure it is a wolf or a bear, with a voice like
Dionysus. I lie down on his discarded skin and it wraps around me. I cannot
breathe. I cannot take it off.
I am no longer human.
I never see this lover again.
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