Free verse № 128148
Crack baby
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.
6 comments
The first three verses are good, but the last leaves some untapped drama or its clouded in image. It seems the last line could come up so it applies to Mummy and end with the zip code of granite.
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