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By Alayna Powell
A vagina
Stuffed full
Of linen
Smeared with wax
The issue
of
Hope
The black slave
Women
The hole
The issue
The catheter
Introducing
The catheter
To
A bag of smooth
muscle
Introducing
Elastic resin a moment
Of scalding
Urine torturous
Leakage
Fill passively
The women Easily
As little water
As
Possible
The standard
The patient
as quiet
and immobile as possible
The slave
At his disposal
Glimpsed tools
Very Easily
Meat
The women
Practice
Fruits
Of Surgery
Fistulas
That had been given to him.
Alayna Powell is a senior studying poetry at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work is featured in Rogue Agent Journal.