My Mother Told Me the Easter Bunny Was Real --
In Addition To Carpenters Get Resurrected
"Yet each five seconds worldwide
a child dies,
with a few children even dying in Pain --
slow."
-- The History of Humankind
(not told at Mommy's knee)
* * *
I heard a wild great ape beyond the entrance of a cave
loud gibbering it long had craved a prehistoric dream
till on espying thighs spread wide astride an ancient grave --
enslaved to Horror dropped I into one primeval Scream.
* * *
a dedication of Respect
for
Antinatalism --
the Rationally Ethical ideology
anti
mortal birth defects, deadly human diseases, killing natural disasters,
fatal accidents, and lethal human abuses
(aside from dyings in Pain slow)
a revolving helios rhyme menippean satire on
the popular, sentimental, romanticized notion of
"the gift of life"
april, 2023 -- yet countless babies still being
pushed into a world with neither their consent nor a guarantee from
continuous
Horrors
untold
Copyright © James Starkey Iii | Year Posted 2023
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