| African Birth In a distant village In a desolate place Not on a map In Zaire That the world hardly Even knows exists A 13 year old girl Who was married to Her husband in an Arranged marriage to An older cousin Who she met for the first Time on the day of her Wedding Goes into labor. After hours of pushing, And totally exhausted the head Of an unborn girl Is stuck hanging partially Out of her vagina. A donkey takes her in A cart to a road Where a random car Refuses to take her to A hospital. Two days later Baby now dead Its head still jutting Out partially between Her legs She finally arrives at A hospital with No electricity, no anesthetics, few medicines, and lines of desparate people waiting for an overwhelmed doctor. Eventually the baby Is expelled. And the girls insides Are ruined. She can’t control Her bowels and pisses herself without control. Her husband divorces Her. She is shunned by the Village. She hides in a hut. A witch doctor stuffs Potions into her pussy. Which never heals. Her life is considered Over. She soon will be 14. |
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