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Poems from
Imaginaria A collection of five truly mind-bending science-fiction poems exploring the boundaries of the human imagination and challenging our everyday perceptions of reality. What is normal and what is not? You be the judge.
Me and my Placenta By Steven S Behram, MD
I was born with a constant companion, A friend, protector, and guardian, Melding together in the darkness of the womb Birthing together to the light of a new world.
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And the pain. Then out came my boy, As if everything was sane. The nurses rushed to tend to this little prince, And what came out next has me wondering ever since.
Unremembered were these facts, Lost to the sea of years. Indisputable were these truths, For now I had my baby to rear.
How we cherish the child And celebrate his existence But how we've come to deny The placenta’s evil co-existence.
As I watched my wife birth my beautiful son, It came back to me, what to me had been done.
For the meaning of life became clear to me then, How we suffer and linger In this thing we call life.
First was the crowning, And the moaning,
For what is a baby When all is said and done? But a way for one placenta To make a second one.
