The farmer's wifeA Poem by Roxanne Aponte
pig's snout
sniffing out the eggs in my basket resting on a baby's corpse of short legs and white bones sewn up tight slowly scheming, eating each rotten egg one by one As I continue to carry the egg basket over her grave where she rests in a blue casket getting paid by the foot she lies under buried alive and f*****g for her life © 2011 Roxanne Aponte |
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Added on February 13, 2011 Last Updated on February 13, 2011 AuthorRoxanne AponteBrooklyn, NYAboutI've been writing since I was a child: stories, poetry, much of it personal as I've been an avid journal writer for many years. I write mainly for the cathartic release. My love of words is a passion .. more..Writing
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