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This next poem is the title
poem of the collection.

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And this came to fruition after
I did a lot of weird Wikipedia

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rabbit hole searches.

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I started to become
really interested

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in all the different abortion
techniques throughout history,

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and so this is what came about.

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"Lessons on Expulsion."

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"I discipline my waist and lean
against the heated coconut.

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The day is gray as
a face, and my sin

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clear as the hoofmarks
in the carmine.

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What is God to me but an
open-mouthed stranger?

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I stepped across a viper
and still the forked tongue

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flickers in my hollow.

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You see, my lust will never
know death nor harvest--

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elixir of hellbore, colocynth,
salt, stick, and mouse shit.

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I run in circles and bathe
in the hateful river.

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This grain, this
wild greedy thing

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he's left me plumping
so paltry and mulish.

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Mercury, mandrake--
I am only a girl

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with this brilliant
black nest of eagerness.

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Over and over, my mother
calls to me, my name

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a wreckless ribbon
in the gloaming.

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When the clouds part like
stupid lovers, I close my eyes

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and press myself against
the eucalyptus tree.

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I let the leeches
crawl until nightfall."

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