Sullen, sallow, hollow boy,<\/p>\n
Carved out and cut away,<\/p>\n
Like shredded remains\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n of placenta,<\/p>\n malformed clusters, clumps of flesh-food<\/p>\n Human remains fed upon by something<\/p>\n that devours without teeth.<\/p>\n Scraped away, viciously pulled.<\/p>\n cut into ribbons.<\/p>\n The womb now<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>forever<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>empty<\/p>\n Blood for life, tossed aside,<\/p>\n thrown in the trash.<\/p>\n Cells once ripe,<\/p>\n nourishment syphoned,<\/p>\n from its writhing mass,<\/p>\n now still, now<\/p>\n hollow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And yet,<\/p>\n a fetus,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [counterpart]<\/p>\n lives on\u2014<\/p>\n pristine,<\/p>\n polished,<\/p>\n nourished,<\/p>\n [vampiric]<\/p>\n energized,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n empowered,<\/p>\n whole\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n to grow, to thrive,<\/p>\n to flee, eyes forward,<\/p>\n with fresh feet and strong legs,<\/p>\n to forget about this \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>repulsive \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>mass<\/p>\n writhing and boneless,<\/p>\n no more than a sack of flesh,<\/p>\n trembling with anxiety,<\/p>\n its services complete.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Twitching within the debris<\/p>\n ichor of life, sucked dry,<\/p>\n this sullen boy stirs once more,<\/p>\n to form soft bones,<\/p>\n and calloused feet,<\/p>\n from companion trash-things,<\/p>\n and buzzing masses,<\/p>\n likewise tossed aside,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n by a cannibal of trust,<\/p>\n reborn from the lifeblood,<\/p>\n of death after death after death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sullen, sallow, hollow boy, Carved out and cut away, Like shredded remains\u00a0 of placenta, malformed clusters, clumps of flesh-food Human remains fed upon by something that devours without teeth. Scraped away, viciously pulled. cut into ribbons. The womb now \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 forever \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 empty Blood for life, tossed aside, thrown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadserif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadserif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadserif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadserif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadserif.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sadserif.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadserif.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadserif.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadserif.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}