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