I drank milk out of the powdered factories
Milk of manufactured proteins
and processed, punctured steel,
Robbed from the animals
who could not feed
their own young
She could not feed me
with her empty breasts
I was too painful for her
bare nipples
dried up with fear
at this creature
She fed me with a spoon
because she was too afraid
of me, herself
Her body, her saliva,
her teeth growing old
would not chew for me--
So I teethed.
I grew them so I could chew
for myself, for her
I grew teeth so I could tear her up
I grew so I could run
like a monster through the woods
fast
Mother,
I hide from you there,
trying to strip you from my skin.
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