Heleri’s Reviews > Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great > Status Update

MY CORPSE and I
understand each other marvelously
my corpse asks me: do you believe in God?
and I respond with a hearty NO
my corpse asks: do you believe in the government?
and I respond with a punch in the face
then he gets up out of his coffin
and we go arm in arm to the altar

The Nobel Prize for Reading
should be awarded to me
I am the ideal reader,
I read everything I get my hands on:
I read street names
and neon signs
bathroom walls
and new price-lists
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for a person like me
the word is something holy
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I read everything I don't even skip the classifieds
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that's why I'm asking you to give me
the Nobel Prize for Reading
as soon as impossible.