Lightning Rod's Stretch Marks

[Lightning Rod]

not enough
not enough cocoa butter
to vanish my stretch marks
when I gave birth to our love
a germ swift and lubricated

genesis pulls the tissue asunder
what's above and
what is under
a globe infected with life
and wonder
we stood helpless
as it grew and grew
a pirate's plunder
stashed in a womb
the fetus of our facile blunder

the love, like all babies
was an evil little thing at birth
only wanting worship and breast milk
grew and grew
grew up to be
a suckled adult

I felt nine months pregnant
with no trust fund
the baby
once a virus without a cell phone
now a grasping child
enchanted by mirrors
it grew from a lonely germ

I was both mother and father
our love the fated offspring
the sly incest, the stain of pride
desolation's parthenogene
my imagination went bankrupt
I couldn't pay the child support
the interest on my alimony was too high
I hated our love like science hates a miracle

so I salve my stretch marks and
put myself up for adoption
an orphan of your indifference
not enough
not enough

[Arcadia]

rough trip! happy to read you again l-rod!!!!!!!

[Doreen Peri]

powerful images... really very

(two words i'm trying to eliminate from my writing... "really" and "very".. but those are the only two which will do to reply... )

powerful images... really very

[judih]

virus within
family without
left on the doorstep of chance

l-rod - this poem is so rich in so many ways
i can only try to ku a response

[Lightning Rod]

thank you for reading ladies
for reading my little dissertation on solo virgin birth
it's not a subject for boys I know

[Nazz]

these things do indeed take on lives of their own. you showed us how. outstanding.