she boiled my blood inside a *** of steel,
with bread she cooked it thoroughly till foam,
had covered all, unseeable, unfeel-
-ing, vengeance wrathful, hardened to a loam,
where blood is life, she caused the life to be,
unlivable, no more a life to me
(C)2012, Christos Rigakos
Oct 10, 2012
Oct 10, 2012 at 2:51 PM UTC
she boiled my blood inside a *** of steel,
with bread she cooked it thoroughly till foam,
had covered all, unseeable, unfeel-
-ing, vengeance wrathful, hardened to a loam,
where blood is life, she caused the life to be,
unlivable, no more a life to me
(C)2012, Christos Rigakos
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