A Nebulous Birthday (and My Two-Year Coma)
Contributed by
Butterat_Zool
on
Wednesday, 21st January 2004 @ 07:23:58 PM in AEST
Topic:
Lifepoems
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Found to be living and male,
checked upon for discrepancies,
and stripped, for the first time in my existence,
of the coat of blood
that I had worn to keep warm,
they showed me to my mother,
who rested, exhausted, but overjoyed
that she was able to keep one to term.
My father got me next, and carried my fat,
alien frame out of the delivery room.
There, the story ends and my memory begins.
Colorblind, deaf, and utterly stupid,
devoid of any perceptions that can’t be duplicated
on an Etch-a-Sketch, I met my grandparents
for the first time in my life.
I remember their chairs, and various unimportant details
about the hallway and such, and then my brain
learned it’s place and stopped recording
until it was time for me to speak.
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