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I want to publicly register my absence
from the first back correction,
as I was either unborn.
Or how would such a young mind possibly
recall, dear me?
In reality,
I remember ajar furnace door,
warmly darkened garage,
back brace
on Dad leaning painfully
on Mom.
The latest invasion was not;
a tiny cut to accommodate a camera,
and other tools,
through a vast tunnel from spine to dermis,
to surgeon’s hands,
on-screen.
In my lifetime,
things once butcherous have sleakened.
For I remember this time;
the day I looked at my wake.
Reminded, it’s mine.
From a nuclear depth;
I got, I have, I’m fixin’
my make-up.
Backbone.
Spine.