Not Very Nice

May 15, 2009 at 10:21 am · Filed under Poems and tagged: poor sister in law

When our genetics intertwine

How much of you will I keep?

How much of her will be mine?

I want to separate the shit

That might rise up from the bowels

Of your bloody history.

I want only the pretty parts of you

Inseminating inside of me.

I want only the pretty parts,

I want even to leaven you back.

I want the colour of your eyes

And the way that you smile

And the smooth skin on your back,

But the rest can stay where it is

In your fleshy cocoon.

You can keep all your insults

In your paternal womb.

And you can keep your connection,

Spidery as it may be,

In its once separated place

So I see none of that ugliness

In my darling child’s face.

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