literature

i have no right to the title 'woman'

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Literature Text

i.

my body;
a pocket of earth
riven with weak eggs

the pulse of chromosomes
will only bruise


ii.

my body;  
lactation failure,
tuberous breast deformity  

insufficient fund of
glandular tissue


iii.

my body;
house of a
thousand autumns

yesterdays are
bursts of red,
flesh that could
not solidify


iv.

my body;
will never
conceive spring  

and child, i am sorry
i cannot pull the poetry from my belly
to sing your nursery verses


v.

the testimony of my
existence has been voided
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