gizzards: the latest in body modification
The wild, exciting, cutting-edge, and sometimes-icky world of body modification and ritual scarification has recently gone bonkers over a craze whereby young hipsters are sporting gizzards as a sign of rebellion and individuality.
No longer content to merely puncture their skin with steel rods or implant ancient coins in their earlobes, today's most modern of Modern Primitives are having their throat areas elongated to resemble the blazing-red, boldly sexual throat area of Meleagris gallopavo, AKA the north American wild turkey. The new bod-mod cult of "gizzardians" equates one's sexual power with the size and garishness of one's surgically created gizzard.
The medical procedure itself is painful, expensive, irreversible, and sometimes even fatal. It involves a ritual strangling of throat tissue—starting with small clamp-like piercings and then, once the skin beneath the chin is sufficently loosened, an array of small nylon nooses—resulting in a sagging, reddened sac that resembles nothing so much as a scrotum with a skin rash.
"My gizzard symbolizes cultural transformation," beams Loki Gertner (pictured), a runaway teenager and bisexual panhandler. "The Africans over in Africa modify their bodies with the plates in their lips, which symbolize, you know, the communal plate, the shared plate, the plate where everyone in the community can get a bite to eat if they're hungry, and so, like, my gizzard represents the giant invisible American Thanksgiving turkey which stretches from coast to coast, an atavistic animal god which brings bounty and feeds the wayward children. Plus, a lot of skater chicks think it's really hot that I have a gizzard hanging from my neck."
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Behold the 22nd installment of Trucker Fags in Denial.
