A fantasy from the underworld

The mother calls the child to dinner,

The water is both milk and poison,

Cakes of mud soothe hungry bellies;

Though their flesh rots to skeletons,

Lucky they are for others die alone

As orphans must sweep scrap rice off floors;

Their starving cries spill out from the globe;

Matthew J.Geiger

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