Cull Me:

Bare feet on the tiles

We fall to your guiles

Grappling, begging,

Failing to reconcile

Cull me, and cull her, and cull them all

Cull us, ‘cause maybe we’ve asked for it, with our gall

Cull me, and cull me, and cull me again

Defecation of defamation

With you at the center of the hall

Pull back the skin

As you watch it begin

Perfect discordant harmony

From your ashen violin

Cull me, and cull her, and cull them all

Cull us, ‘cause maybe we’ve asked for it, with our gall Cull me, and cull me, and cull me again

Defecation of defamation

With you at the center of the hall

Paralytic hazy days

We pretend to be unfazed

This vast room knows of nothing but the time that you take to raze

Sirens sound and the lights flash re

Wheels and people and white walls and a bed

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

Did you get what you wanted?

[Dialogical interlude]

Cull me, and cull her, and cull them all

Cull us, ‘cause maybe we’ve asked for it, with our gall

Cull me, and cull me, and cull me again

Defecation of defamation

With you at the center of the hall

By Felicia Y-J