Anti-Vivisectionist by Matt Dennison​

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Start dissecting love
     and you'll end with
         a scattering of bone,
           an old ham sandwich,
            twelve rain-wrapped
          tornadoes crawling
         on elbows toward
         the wrong bus on
         the wrong night
            in the wrong
            town in the
           wrong city
           just like
         us.



Matt Dennison finished his undergraduate degree at Mississippi State University where he won the National Sigma Tau Delta essay competition (judged by X.J. Kennedy). His work has appeared in Rattle, Natural Bridge, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Cider Press Review, among others.