on Babes and Kine
a babe, suck for life
manual like breathing must have been
in the kitchen, round the yard
from mama’s nipple learned a true nature
and every relationship contained in it
That new teat now disposable pink become youth’s poison
suck, suck that milk made poor, of machines and other spotted kinds
carry with it their dissolved despair; It weren’t meant for me or you
You thief You wretch, Defilers!
wont you think of Them?
and them?
but you defilers also be defiled, why?
maybe just unthought want for what’s past your time
Just given it? Just have it? Just nice?
The babe wants not, NO!
a tree want rainwater rather’n urine
And from the sky his friend, not the sea a stranger
but a stranger you be now mama, and strange