She
a moving skeleton
looking pale
like a faded petal
her collar bones projecting
like hump on the roads
hair dishevelled
like that of an insane woman
her breasts flattened
gave birth to an
anaemic baby
thirty days before
listening to a sermon
on the Television
the need for breast feeding
the child
for six months
for nurturing him
a bony baby.
Held the baby
close to her breast
and
the baby sucking out
but not milk
what he draws out
is but blood….
Sermons easy to deliver
nutritious food but
not the preacher’s duty
to donate.
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