the sickest form of madness

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/