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How awful it would be (to be alive when dead)
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not for long
bugs wait
eventually the wood rots through
years pass
pests invade
to quench the hunger
in your eyes
down your nose
spoiling your body; the plunder
wet crunching
endless buffet
the host remains hospitable
until the last
final morsel
is ravaged by invisible cannibals
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Thank you for reading. You're probably right on the term "cannibals" but when I think of a cannibal, I would tend to believe that kind of being would eat just about anything, especially when they are the kind that eat their own.
A good piece. ‘Cannibals’ though, doesn't sit right with me either.
To be cannibalistic is to eat your own kind so although the notion of being devoured in the grave by tiny worms and insects is right, I don't think they are being cannibals. Carnivores? Maybe...
