Mummy and Daddy are Methodists

they have to have everything right;

they taught me that life is sacred,

to never give up the good fight. 

 

Biology taught me the details

of life with its marvellous ways,

seeing how things are constructed

and to see how they're taken apart;

 

the blood and the organs, muscles and nerves,

how living creatures feed and breed;

emotions filtered, often suppressed

impossible dreams never expressed. 

 

My Mummy and Daddy will visit today.

my prison cell is A OK.

Ten years since the murders now,

they'll come with their disbelieving eyes

 

not knowing me one wit more than when

they felt that He was on their side,

when they were blessed with little me,

rotten to the core.