Choking on the Afterbirth

Put me inside of her

Thrusting deep with

Their impassioned vows

Wet with the taste of

His saliva dripping

Between her soft breasts

As her back arches --

I am clinging to her flesh

Like a beast wrought and

Howling within her

Swimming in her blood

And its pulpy matter

Readying me and --

She is implanted

With the egg of my ghost

I am inside of her

Within her throbbing womb

Nourishing my fetal self

And feasting

On her marrow to

Destroy her inside-out

Ricocheting with disgust and

Maddened by lust

Seeking revenge and

The chance to live again

A legacy of reminders

Blood for blood and --

The meat of his existence

Now me, and

We are one.

Holding tightly to

One another that night

They shared a nightmare

Of a child dancing

Innocence adorned with

Pink ribbons and

A third DNA

The fruit of their loin

Now the spirit of

His dead lover

Slain and discarded

Into a resurrection of

A fallen angel

Swaddled in white

And ready to feed

And when I escape

This repugnant organ cask

Expelled from the belly of

His matrimonial whore

I will clench her heart

Between my fists and

Extract their love

Dissolving it with

Her dimmed consciousness

And between the nails of

My unrequited desire

Through her birth canal

I will take with me

Her life

Sacrificed during

My childbirth

Born again

And with purpose

Leaving him alone with

Fatherhood and

His regrets

And the rot of familiarity

Will fill the delivery room

Its air stagnant with

His choices and

His new babyʼs cry

Wailing for the embrace of

Her widowed father

Ready to haunt him

Indefinitely with --

The face of a cherub,

Her dead motherʼs eyes, and

The spirit of me.