science #5

walden freeman

all those pencilsharpeners we buried as kids came back to bite use when we noticed all the trees had turned into spinning pencils ready to stab our limbs off and take them for their own. so we discarded our arms and legs and replaced them with steel but somewhere we must have forgotten we'd cast iron to play the role of our woods long ago. none of our efforts were necessary and we'd become a longitudinal masses of failures waiting to be cut down by the advanced lumberjacks diamond-tipped saws. the twist comes when we discover the diamonds were dug up with our long-forgotton abandoned body parts.