#this has some gory descriptions so i'm putting tws here

[dobaara]

the museum of bodies. 08/21. S.R.

transcript under the cut:-

the museum of bodies

"Welcome to the museum of bodies. We have six special exhibits for you to feast on. We hope you have a wonderful experience. Also do not forget to feed the half a dozen mouths that will guide you through the museum"

I

HEART

If you take a left and then a right, you would reach the heart exhibit. Our most famous exhibit is the broken but mended heart. If you look past the ravenous crows drowning in it, you would see someone holding two hearts, one dead and another one plump, red, and alive. It is a visage of eyesores. The plaque underneath this reads ”DO YOU THINK YOUR HEART IS ENOUGH TO SAVE YOU?" The hearts only soar when someone else holds it in their arms and cradles its ashes like their own. The heart is fickle and the least visited exhibit out of them all.

Could you please feed us now? We want to rip your heart out.

II

EYES

When you straight through the marbled hallway from the heart exhibit, you will reach the exhibit of the eyes. We house multiple eyes which find their homes here for the rest of their days. Where far spent nights drip like blood from the eyelids to the iris. The arrows are of a wonderful selection, they dart at the slightest of moments and wander back home like a boomerang while wagging their tails. Can you give us your eyes now? Sorry, the third mouth is gluttonous.

III

MOUTH

A U-turn is to be taken from the eyes into a different hallway to reach the exhibit of the mouth. A ventriloquist's heaven, he kisses all the mouths before giving his own and dancing to the sweet melody that all the mouths sing together every evening. The tongues which are overweight with profanity weigh themselves in a special exhibit each day The roars of animals run through the museum, feasting on the bodies at the entrance before biting their cheeks in quick succession. The mouths have always been ravenous, for love, for blood, and a winter's silence.

Sorry the fourth one is hungry again, I told her to eat an extra morsel of your heart, would you please give her your lips?

IV

EARS

If you take a right (or a left) from the V-shaped corridor you will reach the exhibit of the ear. The ears are the most visited exhibit in our museum. Each day we wake and walk into the sounds of cicadas and crickets flitting around in a clumsy melody. We hear the oceans sometimes when the ears deem us fit for use. The ears rot from the decay of how we sound, nibbling off an otolaryngologist during the midday. They say the only place where you could find heaven is in your lover's ears. Can we have yours to check that fact?

V

BRAIN

The kingdom of the mind. Or so everyone says. The path to these dangerous dwellings is through a corridor that is straight but moves like the neurons that stick to the walls. There do exist some rare cases, ones where two minds are fused by professions. Those who come here give a pound for a pound and the ones which are wider than the sky are trapped in mazes of their own. We wish to measure yours for a maze we are building for someone else. Could we borrow it?

VI

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We hope you had an excellent experience at the museum of bodies. We hope for you to walk in again. In the meantime, for the rest of you, the half a dozen mouths will show you to your exhibit now. Do not fret. We promise to cherish you for the rest of your days.

— S.R.