his face a blackened, baked, dried husk, drained of fluids—
a diseased mask collapsing around the tumor that festers at his core

uterine intestine
spasms
cancerous coils convulse

unwanted
umbilical unravels
poisoned parent aches

breaks
split from within
shattered shell

face war-red
hairless
helpless, blind

thrust through the gaping gate, expelled from nurture’s niche,
once free he is a lit wick, red ichor burning black

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