The tears of elderly children
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I string them on a white hair
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I toss the wet chain into the air
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And wish I had a mother
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No sun shines for me
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No breast has wept milk
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A tube is stuck in my throat
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I've no navel on my belly
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I wasn’t allowed to lick nipples
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And had no fold to hide in
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Nobody gave me a name
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Conceived in haste and without seed
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To the mother who never bore me
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I swore tonight
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I'll give her a sickness
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And then sink her in the river
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An eel lives in her lungs
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On my forehead a birthmark
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Remove it with a knife's kiss
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Even if I have to die from it
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An eel lives in her lungs
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On my forehead a birthmark
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Remove it with a knife's kiss
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Even if I have to bleed to death