By J. Savage, Contributor
There are 12 of us living in this house.
My room is on the ground floor, and I
keep the curtains drawn. The sun
does not reach this far down.
A whale corpse sank
to the bottom of the ocean
two years ago. Now there
is nothing left but a skeleton.
The collective science of
human beings, have discovered
178 living things existing
on a single vertebra.
The West Coast is made of
the bumpy ridges of a
skeleton. 603,500 people
existing in a single city.
There are 12 of us living
in this house. They ask me
would you prefer the vertebra?
I smile, showing all my teeth.