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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

by Emmalea Russo

Movie still from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Leatherface swings his chainsaw against the sunrise.

the day drags a hue discharged

meat orange stretched square

onscreen guy

you also

light shoots

nauseous into us

rubbing out by conjoining

meat and moon

moon and men

screen do shimmer

do

do

unto this pause what rots

throw a line all the way out

stop

viscosity’s canceled shine

flashlight sucked branches

what got stuffed into those minutes

emitted in light’s diurnal oil

placed in steel

container paste-like

transgressing the horizon

night’s acutest angle slips

tube-shaped

fucking headlights which are two moons which is one

light’s indifference

shows Sally through the woods and reveals to Leatherface 

her position

extract from

this the fluid in which the globe

bobs

lit spit

back down

your face

esophageal wow

a drag a day like

smoke pushing past mine into your

unrisen sun’s camera drug

flesh lamp glisten

meat glisten

pickup glisten

the day drags a hue discharged

meat orange stretched square

onscreen guy

you also

light shoots

nauseous into us

rubbing out by conjoining

meat and moon

moon and men

screen do shimmer

do

do

unto this pause what rots

throw a line all the way out

stop

viscosity’s canceled shine

flashlight sucked branches

what got stuffed into those minutes

emitted in light’s diurnal oil

placed in steel

container paste-like

transgressing the horizon

night’s acutest angle slips

tube-shaped

fucking headlights which are two moons which is one

light’s indifference

shows Sally through the woods and reveals to Leatherface 

her position

extract from

this the fluid in which the globe

bobs

lit spit

back down

your face

esophageal wow

a drag a day like

smoke pushing past mine into your

unrisen sun’s camera drug

flesh lamp glisten

meat glisten

pickup glisten