QUOTE : It is our custom<br />to consume<br />the person we love.<br />Taboo flesh: swollen<br />genitalia nipples<br />the scrotum the vulva<br />the soles of the feet<br />the palm of the hand<br />heart and liver taste best.<br />Cannibalism is blessed.<br /><br />I'll wear your jawbone<br />round my neck<br />listen to your vertebrae<br />bone tapping bone in my wrists.<br />I'll string your fingers round my waist -<br />what a rigorous embrace.<br />Over my heart I'll wear<br />a brooch with a lock of hair.<br />Nights I'll sleep cradling<br />your skull sharpening<br />my teeth on your toothless grin.<br /><br />Sundays there's Mass and communion<br />and I'll put your relics to rest.