<html>
<title> this is your corporeal being </title>
<p> end </p>
<womb>
<body> <skin> head brain ribs lungs heart hips navel sex fingers ankles toes </skin> </body>
</womb>
<p> birth </p>
<life> this is your incorporeal experience </life>
<img src=“tabula rasa.jpg”>
<learn to> inhale, think, speak, create </learn to>
<img src=“coloring book.jpg”>
<learn to> keep the crayons inside the lines </learn to>
<img src=“introduction to suffering.jpg”>
<learn to> suffer, scream, rinse, repeat </learn to>
<img src =“this is the part that lasts the longest.jpg”>
<try to> embrace the mundane but you’ll never </learn to>
<img src=“and now you are gone.jpg”>
<learn to> cease </learn to>
<death> these are your final thoughts </death>
<body> <mind> <spirit> soul abandoning body </spirit> </mind> </body>
…Rerouting…
<body> <skin> <nothing> nothing nothing nothing nothing </nothing> </skin> </body>
<preservation> <embalming> drainage/injection </embalming> </preservation>
<funeral>
<burial>
<img src=“casket.jpg”>
</burial>
</funeral>
<body> maggots </body>
<img src =“rot.jpg”>
<p> origin </p>
</html>
H.C. Bending is a writer from Brooklyn, New York.