Exquisite Corpse

John Cameron Mitchell

I got it all sewn up

A hardened razor cut

Scar map across my body



And you can trace the lines

Through misery's designs

That map across my body



A collage!

I'm all sewn up

A montage!

I'm all sewn up



A random pattern with a needle and thread

The overlapping way diseases are spread to a

Tornado body with a hand grenade head

And the legs of two lovers entwined



Inside I'm hollowed out

Outside's a paper shroud

And all the rest's illusion



That there's a will and soul

That we can wrest control

From chaos and confusion



A collage!

I'm all sewn up

A montage!

I'm all sewn up