The Former Heir Apparent

"Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in mothers --
as well as daughters."  
-- a savage ethics
unforgivable
 
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Here all your fat
full stored below
in puckered buttocks
bright-scarred belly
dimpled hips and thighs
though eons past
the blades disposed of
both your mammaries
sliced off
garbaged
time enough before my birth
my angel ribbon pin a princess Pepto Bismol pink
the yard sale to a buck translated
on my being resurrected not
from off the slab
to walk and
thrive.
 
You dead old pear --
up till my own death
secreted in the lump of frog-eyed rot
I used to peel your skin
oh
so
slow.