The
Newspapers came in.
Breathe her in
here 
she comes 
Breathe him in
his infant skin
nude and kicking
from the cradle to  your grave
breathe the soot
the grime
it sticks
 it glues
your eyelids shut
stagger upright
reach ahead
 beg and beg
for one clean breath
keep on and say
there’s evil
in 
him
the way you say
there’s soy sauce in the rice
already
macerate the little meat
of speech
here now
between the ingress
and the outpour
marinate that in
the good the evil
the six drops of the essence of terror
over the shoulder 
while you’re at it
salt the floor
Narrating the cartoons
here childrens 
 Mr Trumpet and the Conch
is that the name?
I know son, I always
get that wrong.
 
A very powerful poem
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