If You Died Tomorrow I Would Eat Your Corpse by Wrath James White

What a great way to end the year of reading with this book. I was pleasantly and weirdly pleased and confused at the same time while reading this book. It’s a super short book, only 86 pages! Though this book is short it doesn’t not disappoint. There is not “lack of content.” There is so much to discover and unpack. The genre(s) for this book are similar to those of Claudia Rankin’s: Citizen (to which you can also find a book review for on my page), poetry, short stories, horror and so much more. The book features two short stories: Her Nightmare and the other is a nameless one. Her nightmare is about a woman who loves BDSM and full disclosure if you are not into that or even have an open mind, I would not recommend reading this book at all. In the story the author continuously refers to the male of the story as the “nightmare,” her nightmare. At first, I was a little conflicted with this because it suggests that the woman is an object. I thought about BDSM and began to think about why people enjoy torture in the bedroom. I ask myself, what are the phycological effects and affects of this practice? Can this desire come from pain, emotional pain? The women in this story lost her child and displays her child’s ashes next to her toys and BDSM equipment, which suggest that nothing else matters and in order to feel anything, any type of pleasure, she needs to engage in such practices. Again, I want to reiterate that I am not too familiar with BDSM, and I am commenting from an outsider’s perspective. Could there potentially be an “error” in this kind of thinking. Can there be a psychological cause for such practices? The second nameless story is about the women in his life. At first, I was confused as his style of writing is new to me, yet so fascinating. He uses the lines of his poem as a transition to his subjects (women). As the story develops it gets heavier and darker. He used blinking as metaphor for the loss of the women he has loved. With each blink intensifying the remorse of loss, the pain of starting over, the anger of finding new perspectives of love. I thought about how many more forevers I, myself can take. How many times must I blink? I loved this book. The poems in this book are GOLD. My favorite one is Sympathy for Frankenstein. The monster of Frankenstein is my absolute favorite monster of all time and seeing a poem in reference to him was a pleasant surprise. The poem is about revival. Revival of memories and corpse to once again feel something. He writes, “All I want is what I had.” (pg.84) Is it possible to move past death? Past the pain of death? This book represents that loss as well as sexual pleasures and new experiences. Want to explore your sexuality whilst enhancing your love for love? Then this book is for you. Overall, I rate this book an 8/10, simply because I am not entirely fond of the BDSM movement. I do, however, most definitely recommend this awesome, yet weird, fantastic book!