grunt
gruntwork
so you think giving birth is hard the other kind
of gruntwork escaping the bones+mortar of this
mortalcoil makes birthing a thing for sissies though
death throes ending in a peace unbeknownst to most
who have never witnessed the deed
but first one must wrestle the survival instinct +family
too who’d rather see you writhe in ecstatic confessions
cancer-ridden +spectral than have you leave them and
nurses in the ward midwives to the darklord with forceps
on your balls +dibs on your soul
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Fall 2018
songanddancegirl 