vera-van-zandt - Hello Poetry

She takes a lolly snake, slides it into her mouth and with her pink tongue ties it in a knot. I take to the corner, stoop into it heavily and with heaving anxiety my intestines do the same trick.

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Sep 16, 2013

Sep 16, 2013 at 2:24 PM UTC

Party Trick

She takes a lolly snake, slides it into her mouth and with her pink tongue ties it in a knot. I take to the corner, stoop into it heavily and with heaving anxiety my intestines do the same trick.

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My mothers painful womb, cut out and tossed away. My first home tossed away with the surgical waste. Thrown away with appendixes limbs spleens the fat from a trophy wife. My first home.

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Sep 16, 2013

Sep 16, 2013 at 1:50 PM UTC

My First Home

My mothers painful womb, cut out and tossed away. My first home tossed away with the surgical waste. Thrown away with appendixes limbs spleens the fat from a trophy wife. My first home.

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For five months you fed me cigarettes You didn't know that I had made a home inside you. I was born tiny and early. For two days I lie naked and incapable ****** and smoke ridden. Drugged. I'm a young woman this time, but still your infant. Two days you let me rot whilst other mothers brushed their daughters hair and soothed them. I lay naked and sore my hair too matted for brushing. My wounds too deep now for you to soothe. Other mothers were checking closets and under beds keeping the monsters away I had no bed just bloodied carpet and a monster that did not hide.

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Sep 16, 2013

Sep 16, 2013 at 1:45 PM UTC

Monsters Outside of The Womb

For five months you fed me cigarettes You didn't know that I had made a home inside you. I was born tiny and early. For two days I lie naked and incapable ****** and smoke ridden. Drugged. I'm a young woman this time, but still your infant. Two days you let me rot whilst other mothers brushed their daughters hair and soothed them. I lay naked and sore my hair too matted for brushing. My wounds too deep now for you to soothe. Other mothers were checking closets and under beds keeping the monsters away I had no bed just bloodied carpet and a monster that did not hide.

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I try to pull you out of me, try to find out where you live. Perhaps a hollowed space in my chest or in the space behind my eye. You're as far away as you could be yet you can pull a string, without even knowing and the animal buried inside me writhes. I search for you, for the part you left inside me with broken glass I search through the fatty tissue. Then I stop. Always at that point as if part of me is scared i'll reach the bone and still I won't have found you.

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Sep 16, 2013

Sep 16, 2013 at 1:13 PM UTC

The Harm

I try to pull you out of me, try to find out where you live. Perhaps a hollowed space in my chest or in the space behind my eye. You're as far away as you could be yet you can pull a string, without even knowing and the animal buried inside me writhes. I search for you, for the part you left inside me with broken glass I search through the fatty tissue. Then I stop. Always at that point as if part of me is scared i'll reach the bone and still I won't have found you.

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