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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