I’m doing an assignment for uni where I’m talking about salt and how it freezes time, things that die are preserved in salt because it completely sucks up all liquids. I think it would be a great idea to have a giant whale skeleton preserved in salt, but that is a little large for a uni project, I decide to go smaller and start with a bird. I go around in search, but only find a fresh pigeon corpse.
I figure it will have to do. I pick it up but realize I can’t take it home because my roommates won’t appreciate me dissecting a dead bird on the balcony, so I take it down to the parking lot.
I sit down on a crate and place the pigeon on my lap. I start to pull out the feathers, some of the little fluff feathers come out really easily but the big ones in the wings and tail; I really need to tug, and they rip out a big of skin along with the feather.
Once that’s done and I have a pile of fluffy feathers around me I start to rip away the skin, this doesn’t take long. Skin has a funny texture, sometimes it sticks to my fingers and other times is so thin it tears easily. After the pigeon is skinless I start to move apart the flesh, I pull the whole head off because it feels like it’s dead eyes are looing at me. I pull the feet out too. I get back to the muscles, having carefully pulled it all apart. I crack the tiny ribcage and because I an so absorbed I somehow end up in inside the pigeon, in an underground tunnel. My hands and up to my elbows I’m covered in blood and gunk, it must smell terrible too.
I walk along this tunnel with walls of soil. I wonder how it’s all held up, there are no roots so I figure we are below the underground lakes. I can hear someone talking, it is very unsettling. I keep walking in the dark until I walk into a big cave, there are other tunnel openings all along the walls. In the center there is a tiny floating light. I walk towards it but tiny floating rocks stop me. I look closer and realize that the rocks are planets, the little lights are suns, and that I am walking in the galaxy.