Analysis of "Slab"

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Published on January 9, 2022 9:43:06 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXUfN1ZNPvM

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Themes of death, mortuaries, viral infection, and anti-vaxxers

A discussion of how the poem was constructed, the vocabulary choices, the imagery, and so forth.

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I guess I should've listened
before they laid me on the slab,
that a rapacious virus
can bite deeper than a jab.

It feeds on alveoli,
its gluttony inchoate.
A trail of tiny glochids,
a pavement down my throat.

The keys of preparation
laid out like a frieze,
to play my body's organs,
and their secrets seize.

"Sheep to a piping shepherd,
blind will follow," I'd bray.
Yet, those are my taint giblets
lying in the tray.

My note writ in derision,
a final gasping tone,
"I trusted my media Meta"
as the saw bites in my bone.