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I had always thought of birth As a catastrophe: Forced from the world of constant warmth and water To the harsh scrubbed air of Planet Gravity. Unhooked from the umbilical, displaced From immortal complacency To the slaughterhouse of light. Jumbled by shapes, lost In the gesticulating air. Severed from the reference frame, Bewildered, baffled, Screaming at fluorescents. And this birth, yes, Was like that, Only harder, bloodier, more terrifying Than the extremes of my expectations. I used to dream, years ago, (I had forgotten those dreams) Of my own birth, An endless crushing pressure, Darkness compressed upon darkness, The infinite constrictions of nowhere Inflicting identity upon the nameless. And this birth, I think, Was like that. But what delights me about Miss Mutiny (A bundle of wriggles As yet pinned down by gravity) Is how comfortably she Inhabits her face, her features - How relaxed her ease, as if To be pure human was effortless. |
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This piece of poetry BIRTH ON PLANET GRAVITY first appeared when posted online by Hugh Cook: 2004 May 06 Thursday. Copyright © 2004, 2005 Hugh Cook. All rights reserved.
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