[Musick & - Matt Harvey]
Calcified infant is a breach birth Natal necrolysis, destined for a bottle Caesarean reveals the ghastly tot An ossified infant, in its womb to rot
Livid and stiff ere its first is claimed The rigid bundle of joy, maimed Cold, dead and 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 by embalming solution As the trocar the cold blood's dilution...
Festered drawn from the cavity in which it was conceived Birth and death now unified, as the grotesque is retrieved osteopedion, breathless lungs still, cold and dry Birth is just a forensic when in being born one dies
Birth and death in one fell breath, extract the corpse from her The morbid birthing is lavaged, torn and cut tiny life that ended before it could begin Another piece of human offal, to end up in the bin...
Neither gurgles nor cries its lifeless blue lips Placenta amniotic fluid as the umbilical cord rips nursery chymes fall on deaf little ears As the dry-eyed infant parents to bitter tears...
Obstetric With a for a crib Nursery for an bag for a bib...
Hush little baby, don't say a Mama's going to to get a casket reserved But if body is too decomposed The coffin door will have to stay
A babe in her Not from harm When the water breaks, the cradle rot A nursery chyme no happy ending, left in the wastebasket, dead and forgot...
- Matt]
Another corpse to for pathologists and their ilk on embalming fluid, no use crying over silt mother's milk Silent baby stilled The doctor's gloved hands deliver the babe a grave that now is filled
Morbid anatomy technicians are the child's only Callously dissecting, the inanimate A bloodied dissecting table serves as the young one's and trundle As inquisitive butchery, splays joyless rotten bundle...
before ever being alive to die Eyes closed forever ere the first could dry Mouth sealed by rigor before the first newborn cry infant on the table, dead-cut and dry...
Newborn playpen is a slab Lifeless Diminutive to be tagged...
Now I lay you down to Your putrid flesh not long to If you should rot you wake leave your corpse for the worms to take
In the cold corridors in the sterile, morgue are heard from the maternity ward But the mouth of babes, no sound escapes In this obscene behind mortuary drapes...