Death (and What It Truly Is)

death isn’t a funeral

where your family kisses your cheek

and says goodbye

death is lips so chapped

you can’t move them as

your parents list off

the things they hate about you

death is throwing up

in a toilet at your prom

hoping it’ll make you

look a little better through the night

death is getting a knife

and cutting the fat off of your body

because you aren’t valuable enough

to take up so much space