Chris Butler

when an abortion doesn’t take

 

 

I never asked to be born.

 

So Pa,

you should have

shot me into

the sheets,

 

and Ma,

you never should

have received

the seed

 

of me,

 

because

afterbirth

was just a mess.

 

 

Previously published by The Camel Saloon.

 

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