baby, i Starved for you
my insides tried to tell us you were not nutritious,
to leave you,
but i ignored them for three long years.
the body always knows what's good for it.
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i emptied my bowels of the few morsels
of boy i snacked on before,
unhinged my jaw,
and feasted on you.
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silly me,
i got food poisoning;
developing a taste for rancid grub.
i refused to acknowledge,
let alone treat…