(Lines to an aborted foetus)

 

Pitiful,

Mangled,

Interrupted thing.

Ramshackle remnant

Of what aspired to be a shape,

Ignominously dumped

Into the sarcophagus

Of this

White

Plastic

Bucket

Hail!

 

It was most discourteous of us

To suffer you enter

Into the ante room

Of our existence,

Grant you a grudging sustenance,

A meagre hospitality,

Short leave to lay,

In the watery quiet of the womb,

A levy on our world

And to commence

A small, sweet architecture,

Only to set

With so abrupt a termination

All your teeming diligence at naught.

 

For thee

To whom

The sisterhood

Was most un-sisterly,

And the brotherhood

Most un-brotherly,

Valediction

Only mocks.

While poetry

(Candid,

Confraternal

Poesy)

Blenches,

Is struck dumb,

And slithers off

To somewhere sniff out

Some

Drab

Appropriate

Dinginess

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And hide its face