Use latex gloves.
Use a scalpel.
Brain slices up like Jell-O.
Use tweezers to grab the hair-like strand of cranial nerve VII on the ventral brain stem.
Nerve VII controls facial expression, such as your furrowed brow yesterday when the honey-haired boy ended with “but I really enjoy spending time with you.”
Use ventilated rooms to keep from gagging on formaldehyde.
Use labels: pons, vermis, amygdala, thalamus.
Use a new playlist.
Nothing to remind you of swaying together while the notes warmed your bones to honey.
Use your fingers to peel off dura mater.
Use concealer.
Use labels: eyes, mouth, hip, hands, skin.
Use sagittal cuts.
Remember that sagittal sounds like spaghetti, so a sagittal cut from brain to toes would make long strips of human lasagna.
Use a cookie tray to catch the brain juice.
Use scientific objectivity.
This brain is no longer a sheep chewing long grass. The music of his hand on your jaw was just the opening and shutting of ion channels.
Use a scalpel to flay open summer nights and long pauses.
Use the biohazard bin for brain matter.
Use hand sanitizer.
