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Crack baby (Free verse) by Caducus
I was born blue
disconnected from skin by scissors
connected to tape and tubes
kicking in a see through cot
crying at the cleanliness of ghosts.
I was born blue
From a seeded fruit
To a rotten core
where umbilical machines
choked me with oxygen
so I could breathe
and mirrors could be looked at
by pristine womb assassins.
I was born blue,
Blinded and brain dead
From a furnace of spoons
As Mummy was eating for none
And shooting for two.
I died grey
Needing a fix.
Mummy found rehab,
God and a crucifix,
Hiding highs in foil
At the bottom of cisterns,
As I was buried low
Beneath an unnamed grave
In a zip code of granite
The wombs of the damned.
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