PAEN TO PLEASURE OR PAIN


When the last
Stabbing pain
Subsides and
The baby emerges
Birthed
Is that not the
Most excruciating
Pleasure?

When the last
Ripping painful
Breath of starvation
Is interrupted by
A bread crumb
Is that not the
Most beatific
Pleasure?

When seeing the last
Wrenching sunset
Sunrise
Before the
Execution
Engulfs
Is that not the
Ultimate
Pleasure?
How pale then
Our impaled
Pleasures of
Feasts when not
Hungry -

The glee of libertine liberty
Gleaned at savaging an
Aborted executed child
Before its first meal or
Sunrise.

      07/31/2004
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