12.04.2009

NICOLE GREINER: For the Love of Flesh-Meat and Bacon

poem and visual response by Nicole Greiner

For the Love of Flesh-Meat and Bacon


Flesh and meat are life!
Somewhere along the lines I grew these enormous boobs
On an adult, this living, leathery overcoat weighs about 11 lbs
Areola with nipple shown in its normal position

Dali dreamed of Hitler as a white-skinned girl
Whose thighs produced white cream to numb a man's genitals. Called to linger
she played the role of a cyborg

When I go to piss, it's late
For an anterior horn of the lateral ventricle
From the bladder or seminal fluid, from the testis
Note the two shunts, the Botalli's duct (8)
And the significance of hip and pelvic joints for erect posture

And with my face on fire I am suddenly ashamed
I find it very beautiful.

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Nicole Greiner is a Senior in the Sculpture program at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her work currently addresses the liminal state and transformation.