2012 Book #25: THE GUARDIANS by Sarah Manguso

If I worked in a morgue, I wouldn't expose the entire extruded mess. I'd show the identifier a small part of it, whatever still resembled the outside of a body, or what the identifier might remember of the outside of it, if I could.

I think I remember hearing that Harris's parents identified the body, but then I think the teeth must have been collected, and maybe no one had to look at what was left of Harris's body after it was crushed into its constituent parts.

Thus untethered, the body no longer possessed situation in the world, and there was nothing more to say about it.

—The Guardians by Sarah Manguso