Liver - Wreck and Reference

I’m digging a hole through the veranda,

through the pale dirt, through the ant farm,

through my sternum.

I will lie supine, a trough of disappointment.

I was malingering.

You took your gloves off,

and reached inside and pulled out

whatever you could

Your friends and your family, they gathered round me.

Feasting upon my red-tendoned trough,

I welcomed them all.

And you can destroy me, but you have to know that,

it’s only because I asked you to.

And you can have me, but if I let you,

you have to know I have a suicide pill in my tooth.