New Poem 2: Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

I felt my existence

in mid-laugh

while my heart

heaved

beneath me.

(beating)

Compressed

by ribs

larger

than your

5.99 dollar offer. 

Memo: This poem was another "out of the blue" poem so to speak. This semester I'm taking a forensic anthropology course, and we've been looking at human decomposition, bones, crime scene investigations, and a bunch of gross things like that. While taking this class, and other anthropology courses, I've been able to see mankind more and more as a part of the animal kingdom, meaning we are animals that share features to other animals, especially in our anatomy. Although we may be aware of our own mortality, many people see themselves as one whole being instead of one made up of individual parts that help maintain out  mortality(such as our heart, lungs, etc.). Anyways, one night I was watching Saturday Night Live and I started having chest pains, which made me think my anthropology class and it all took off from there. I wanted to break away from the normal