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Dancing Dead Babies

They say it scars you for life!

 

They say it consumes your soul!

 

They say you never get over it!

 

They say a lot of things …

 

Am I so

 

different?

 

Or maybe?

 

I’m

 

just

 

Indifferent!

 

*Who knows?

 

I don’t know

 

I really don’t know*

 

I often peek inside the rusty old bucket of dead babies that I keep in the loft

 

And?

 

I feel nothing

 

Not a **** thing

 

Feeble

 

Formed

 

Foetuses

 

*Swirling around and around and around

 

and around and around

 

and around*

 

Why is it that I have no pain?

 

Why do I not crave my dead babies?

 

I couldn’t even tell you when they fell out

 

When they made a run for it

 

When they thought **** this …. I’m out of this *****

 

Does that make me a bad person?

 

Would it be more acceptable if I was distraught and inconsolable?

 

Then you could all pat me on the back and collect my tears

 

Well ….

 

Heres the news …

 

“There’s NO ******* tears here, baby!”

 

So you all can take your sanctimonious ******** and shove it straight up your sympathetic compassionate arses

 

In fact

 

I’ll even lay a wager that if this was

 

YOU

 

YOU

 

would run

 

through

 

Imaginary birthdays

 

Imaginary names

 

Conceptions

 

Etc

 

"Sshhhh ….. Don’t mention babies in front of her"

 

She is so fragile

 

Full of so much love

 

A tiny delicate little flower

 

Full of so much love

 

MILK IT *****

 

COS TONIGHT I’LL BE HOWLING AT THE MOON SURROUNDED BY DANCING DEAD BABIES

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Nov 4, 2010
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