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Inseminating the Elephant
Excerpt from "Virtue Is the Best Helmet"
One of these days I'm going to get myself an avatar
so I can ride an archaeopteryx in cyberspace-
goodbye, the meat cage.
Pray the server doesn't crash, pray
against the curse of carpal tunnel syndrome.
But then my friend the lactation consultant
brings up the quadriplegic who gave birth
(two times no less)
(motorcycle wreck)
just to make her body do
one thing the meat could still remember.
Somebody has to position the babies
to sip the breastmilk rivulets.
And the cells exude
despite their slumber. One minute
too much silence, the next there's so much screaming.
Lucia Perillo
Excerpt from "Virtue Is the Best Helmet"
One of these days I'm going to get myself an avatar
so I can ride an archaeopteryx in cyberspace-
goodbye, the meat cage.
Pray the server doesn't crash, pray
against the curse of carpal tunnel syndrome.
But then my friend the lactation consultant
brings up the quadriplegic who gave birth
(two times no less)
(motorcycle wreck)
just to make her body do
one thing the meat could still remember.
Somebody has to position the babies
to sip the breastmilk rivulets.
And the cells exude
despite their slumber. One minute
too much silence, the next there's so much screaming.
Lucia Perillo