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Her Side

Her Side
By Sy Roth

Are they going to die like that?
Expire
Retire 
As a broken, opalic string of DNA
Ribonucleic disaster
Worm-eaten womb 
Ascerbic molecules.

Who enabled this procreatic mission?

They rimed it with a urine trail
Left --Her side
Discordant disdain
Heeding her rantings.

Across the hall a pink room 
Only denoting her sex
Imponderable expressions of emotions
Laid bare among a string of rejections.

It echoes hollowly in the recesses.
She laid WMD traps,
Exploding in sickly apprehensions 
A vale of tears.

The sisters fought the battle of Cain and Abel
Smashing their bloodless heads.

The progenitors walked between them
Without trepidation
To the other side 
To vanish in a haze of decaying synapses
Leaving behind only questions
Left silent in the detritus of their disdain.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021




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