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A gangrenous infection
Cut out
Amputation swapped for
A placebo
So I can trick everyone
I’m just like them.

I can harness it
Control it
In time even cure it
But I am hazardous
to keep around the house.
I germinate disease
wiping out the
purpose of our being
But never fear-
it isn’t catching.

A knee-jerk reflex
To the D-word
Quarantined for the nerve
of thinking
I could be like them.

In my isolation unit
I watch the world unfold
Yet cannot touch
What belongs to others
Cannot share
In what will never be mine.

I level the imbalance
Redraft reality
Fashion normality
For the price of wilted words
“Talk about it, talk about it
But not to me.”

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from Barbed​-​Wire Cage, released March 19, 2016
Words and music written and performed by & copyright Natasha Helen Crudden 2013, 2014

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Natasha Helen Crudden Dublin, Ireland

Punk-influenced poet and guitarist, photographer, author of poetry collection Barbed-Wire Cage and novel Empire Evolution and certified space-cadet. I am obsessed with blending raw punk with crafted poetry and am an avid fan of the current slam poetry scene in Ireland. ... more

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