The Doctor Will See You (As A Piece of Meat, Until You Start Bleeding Everywhere)
Measured in syllables,
the distance between the kitchen door and table
is not enough to
avoid the question.
The way that silence
makes a mess of you
if you really bite into it.
The way the bone
celebrates a break
with a crack of applause.
The surgeon looks at his handiwork
and is pleased by the naked flesh.
George Aird is a postgraduate student at Durham University, as well as an assistant editor of poetry at Butcher’s Dog Magazine. He is currently based in the North East of England, and can be found on Twitter at @G_Aird.