This poem, the continuation and stark follow-up to the longer “Hell and Egypt”, is likewise a lyric narrative within the gothic and confessional genres, having strong elements of ballad and theological complaint. Its central theme is the trafficking and abandonment of a child by a mother who herself had been sent off as a baby. It speaks subtly to the notion of generational curse under the horrible torrent of grave misfortune. Written for the “A Shattered Cup of Doom” novella, this poem appears in the “Second Shards of Broken Glass” chapbook.
“HELL AND EGYPT (REPRISE)”
she was sworn to not reveal
that she had been the devil’s whore
and so her wrath and agony
is shade upon the boy she bore
and so the shadow falls on him
she left him lying there alone
who allowed this to occur
she left her baby on the stone
she sold him off to hell and egypt
her running blood, her like, her kind
like some cold slab of bovine carcass
and she rode off, left him behind
she sold him off to hell and egypt
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