What kind of guest refuses the body of the host?

What kind of guest refuses the body of the host? A line distilled from a Victoria Dalkey poem. (The notes don't say which one.) The poem Reading a Used Book was "Excellent," as was the sentiment that years from now you (we) might find ourselves reading this poem from a used book. "Sometimes you have to drown to fuck a mermaid." -- John Dorsey. "everything starts here..." (from the notes written one's journal. --Jane Blue)