She Can'T Bear It
WOMAN YOU ARE INFERTILE
what a mess
she can guess how poor old sarah felt before the angel relented and
implanted isaac
DONT WORRY DEAR he said WHAT'S FORTY YEARS OF PAIN?
YOU'RE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN
if she must be big fat she'd rather be
the sow with eighteen teats
kneedeep in
rope-throated for the butcher's knife but still
smiling from ear to ear
as her teats are eighteen ways caressed
she a mere self and the sow
a goddess
yes
unfathomable karma of the squealing universe
BALLS said the angel LUDICROUS CONCEIT do you want your
legs spread and the guts pulled from you as a living head?
worry guilt potty training
teenage dropout drugs no gratitude
woman of the new millenium VEIL YOURSELF
in friendship sex career
be a man if you will
get therapy adopt the homeless THERE ARE FAR
he cried TOO MANY CHILDREN IN THE WORLD
what is she then
since her body has failed to repay?
only (as Lawrence gently said of Connie Chatterly) a thing of terrors
humiliation worse
far worse than immorality
there are sisters who exercise choice but she
is not one
her womb has her in thrall to its useless bloat and vomit
as the moon darkens her room
ovaries lie in her brain like unpicked fruit
even in sleep
imploding
SHE WANTS TO KILL THE CHILD WITHIN HER
how do you mothers
feel about that?
Copyright © Helen Dymond | Year Posted 2020
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