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someone had left a baby in my care (were they out of their minds?)
the baby in the desk drawer
wasn't watered for a few days
ceased its wormlike writhing
went from hospital pink
to midnight white
gnashed its horrible little mouth
at an unseen finger then
grew increasingly motionless
clutching an unseen throat
in its stiff little hands
leaked all its colour
in blanket wet spots and
revealed its alien bones
'neath a human skin:
enormous skull a giant white egg
baby face all puckered up
atop its brittle(little) spine
drawn like a mad rictus
vertebrae in appalling
protrusion.
digits taper alarmingly to claws
for a soft pair of eyes
to demand an answer:
Why have you done this to me?
androgyne
the baby will be studied
its lack of sex carefully noted
before the broken shell
softly disintegrates and
black dust settles on the bones.
but when will the parents
come home?
You made me feel so uncomfortable with this one. Many congratulations on the use of the word "rictus." Hoorah! You have made a baby into something grotesque. You sick evil bastard. I love you.