Lumiere
06-16-2010, 02:55 PM
"for what you nourish you claim mothership, and
for what you claim mothership, you
make a bed,"
life warned earth.
earth shut her ears.
we came;
we ate;
she made her bed
we come;
we eat;
she makes her bed, where
we fall like drowsed children,
one by one thousand, our
flesh nourishing soil, becoming
the cold nipple on which it gently chews,
sealing our still-born birth, and
so continuing
the bind
for what you claim mothership, you
make a bed,"
life warned earth.
earth shut her ears.
we came;
we ate;
she made her bed
we come;
we eat;
she makes her bed, where
we fall like drowsed children,
one by one thousand, our
flesh nourishing soil, becoming
the cold nipple on which it gently chews,
sealing our still-born birth, and
so continuing
the bind