psychotic deviation
            Mother
and child
                        Earth
and man
what kind of person rapes his mother                                            fits her frail
body for cheap vinyl 
                                                                                                      first
then rapes her –
gangbangs her with the guys from the Rotary Club
while still in utero they gag her, 
            violate
her with neon
preside over the desertification of
her womb                                    
and give her fever with their
concoctions
and so-called remedies for despair
make her chain-smoke till her face
is calloused from burns
bury their excrement in her belly                       ever
deeper            ever
wider            ever
more toxic
they turn from her touch and call it harsh                       uncivilized
and old fashioned
sorry they say lady                                                         you
are passé 
nobody wants your flower
we can paint our own with plasma
nobody needs your bread
we can eat fresh at Subway
I dig you but you’re in the way of my                             dream
house
Notes: Published by
Willows Wept Review
Issue Nine: Fall 2010
http://willowswept.com/nine/nick-petrone/
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