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| Marker Painting "PIETA-2" Black Pieta Ethnic Folk Art Black religious art African |
The Mother
of all
Bombs
the
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mother
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of
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ALL
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bombs
The
Mother
of all
bombs
repeated chanted repeated chanted
sung liturgized canonized infantilized eroticized epitomized
into being
a mantra of man
the Mother
of All
Bombs
the mother of ALL bombs
chants the news so many times
that it becomes a thing
this
Mother
of all
Bombs
My
nipples
lactate
blood
tonight
cloaked inside
my Grandmother’s blanket
my mother’s mother,
i write
with mourning sickness
under my fingernails
the taste of burnt skin
inhabits my tongue
my grandmother
had a scar
on her abdomen
a c-section.
my mother
wanted
to enter life
feet first
the Mother
of ALL
Bombs
an
empty
womb
is
bleeding
mother
mother
mother
mother
mother of all
mother of ALL
Mother of ALL
bombs
goes the chant
mother
of dead child
on exploded soil
on Mother Earth
in the Mother Land
in Afghanistan
314,000,000 dollars worth
of
mothers
of
dead children
and
children
with
dead mothers
wrote a poem this morning
about shadows
while
the Mother
of All
Bombs
was chanting itself
into being
there are
no Mothers
of
Bombs
only
men
who
make
bombs
to
drop
them
on
Mothers.
Mimi German is a Queer Poet, Free Radical and an Activist for human rights in Portland, OR.