Erasures

His father.
Totally sick.
Kitchen knife in his hand.
A mortuary attendant.
Beat his son.
Stabbed him repeatedly.
Embracing and caressing.
His body.

Assaulted and murdered.
30 homicides.
Photograph and dismember the victim.
Pathological urges.
Blows to her head.
Depressions on her skull.
The stigma of confession.
Hacksaw blades.

Murdered 17 men and boys.
Increasingly withdrawn.
Grew increasingly strange.
Foul smells from the basement.
He began a string of murders.
Picked up a hitchhiker.
He kept the skull.
Wandering naked.

Murderer and body snatcher.
Trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.
Decapitated body in a shed.
Masks of human skin.
Robbing nine graves.
Woman suit.
They smelled too bad.
Human facial skins.

Life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.
See what it felt like to kill Grandma.
Engaging in necrophilia.
Had sex with her head.
Turned himself in.
Childhood fantasy.