Bun

O grave injustice of leaky body,

O unsealed bin of bile!

Can I form these parts I so detest? 

This inefficient fleshliness, this mess!

And I am to make one, of these? 

This recipe for bloat and spit and blood? 

Am I to string these organs in a row,

paint-by-numbers, splotch my drops about?

Who handed me these tools, too crude to carve a foot

Too botched to bake a brain, who tricked me,

locked the door, and set the timer on the test? 

Which metaphor will make a man, and soon!

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