UNTITLED 53.
How can I give my children names
that will be written on national ID cards?
A mother now just feeds the same old
fatness with the fruit of herself that she
made- nine months of miracle incubation
and fermentation to brew new life to
stir the same cups of coffee that her
mother stirred only with different implements
of plastic. Plastic is completley man-made
and children are completley man-made but
decay in hills- not like plastics. Synthetics
last forever but my babies will die in battle
or in down beds or throwing themselves
from the tops of the election towers because
sometimes we die for no reason but that
we cannot go on living in a world where
we are citizens or else we are aliens and
if we cannot prove on plastic the names our
mothers gave us then we are nothing- only
ink blurring beneath a round ring and staining.
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