Placental imbroglio drips off the chins of lepers

Innocence stained rouge with the sick swell of sweat

They pick and pick

Pick the stitches of cancerous limbs awash with foetal decay

Crouched in ineffable agonies tormented by crow shit musk

Lithe succubae smother bent and broken spasmodic muscle

Propinquity towards death shelters virgin chest panic

Panic Panic

Drum beat shit storm chaos streaked dust storm clatter hum

A tune through umbilical nooses

Hung around the necks of babies like

An ancient albatross.