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All the texts on child abuse

excessing her shelves

transform the starving girl

into the gluttonous voyeur.

Like a leech gorging on

the bloodfest her anorexic

soul balloons briefly with

her binges into pages obese

with accounts of victims

who have healed by purging

their hoarded secrets, spewing

them into receptacle ears

like ancient Romans

into their vomitoriums.

The very existence of the texts

screams proof of abundant

hearing, literary banquets

of receptivity.

The scared-silent skeleton

takes her breakfast vicariously,

feasts her eyes on words

to line her ribs with,

each page a measured morsel

of sustenance she gobbles up,

slavering Dickensian indigent.

 

                                    Chris McGuire

 

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