{"id":297,"date":"2025-10-08T09:07:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:07:34","slug":"fashion-follows-flesh-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/08\/fashion-follows-flesh-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Follows Flesh (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fashion Follows Flesh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phenomenon of my noumenal skeleton brokenly reconstructed in this world, held together with blood and hair and dirty denim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The caterpillar put off making its cocoon until the first snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under “Experience” I wrote: I bring all my sins.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To turn away one lets in another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The esthetics of complicity and the complicity of \u00e6sthetics\u2014it’s a common mistake not to match the makeup to the cadaver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cocoons in the window: that one’s finished, but this one’s done. I put it in my pocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a history with myself. It’s one of disappointment and revenge. Still, I went to church. My old bully was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bee was fooled by the scent of huckleberry soda in the hand of a person who’s never bitten a berry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty wolves killed two corgis in self defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the zombies came, they had a dogged work ethic but no faith. They got bonuses. The living got PDPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The caterpillar made his cocoon out of his skin, not spun from his guts. It’s much admired, there’s none like it, but it still hasn’t opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Mort Duffy<\/em>
October 8th 2025<\/em>

Halloween Day 8<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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