Blood-Soaked

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Were you not born from your mother's uterus, her blood running through your veins? Shelly Bhoil's powerful poem.

That’s right, I carry
between my legs 
a bag with a napkin
soaked in blood.

Wait, haven’t I been carrying
in me a fountain
of blood since the first mother
ever came on earth?



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