[Musick & - Matt Harvey]
infant is a breach birth debacle Natal necrolysis, destined for a bottle Caesarean section reveals the tot An ossified infant, in its womb to rot
Livid and stiff ere its first is claimed The rigid bundle of joy, maimed Cold, and hard as it's exhumed from the womb The uterus its cradle, and its fetid tomb...
scalpels left for playthings Swaddling bloody but not from chafing Baptism by embalming As the trocar the cold blood's dilution...
Festered fetus drawn from the cavity in which it was Birth and now unified, as the grotesque infant is retrieved osteopedion, breathless lungs still, cold and dry Birth is just a forensic folly when in born one dies
Birth and death in one fell breath, the corpse from her guts The morbid birthing is lavaged, torn and cut Another tiny life that ended before it could Another of human offal, to end up in the rubbish bin...
gurgles nor cries escape its lifeless blue lips Placenta disgorges amniotic as the umbilical cord rips Morbid nursery fall on deaf little ears As the dry-eyed infant parents to bitter tears...
Obstetric a casket for a crib Nursery for an bag for a bib...
Hush little baby, don't say a Mama's going to have to get a casket But if your is too decomposed The coffin door will to stay closed
A babe in her Not safe harm When the breaks, the cradle will rot A nursery chyme with no happy ending, left in the wastebasket, and forgot...
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Another corpse to carve for pathologists and ilk Nursed on embalming fluid, no use crying over silt milk Silent baby stilled The doctor's gloved hands deliver the babe into a grave that now is
Morbid anatomy technicians are the child's only dissecting, the infantile inanimate A bloodied dissecting table serves as the young one's tomb and As inquisitive butchery, splays joyless rotten bundle...
Dead before ever alive to die Eyes forever ere the first tear could dry Mouth sealed by rigor mortis the first newborn cry infant on the table, dead-cut and dry...
Newborn playpen is a slab Lifeless toes to be tagged...
Now I lay you to sleep putrid flesh not long to keep If you should rot before you Then leave your corpse for the worms to
In the cold in the sterile, dead morgue Sobs are heard from the maternity But the mouth of babes, no sound escapes In this nativity obscene mortuary drapes...