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God poisoned my mother
twice. Twice -
also the number of
times she gave birth.
They ripped out
a piece of her, ensuring
I’d be her final child.
Then the doctors
poisoned her, too. Her hair didn’t
fall out, but her kindness did.
I swear I heard her
retching it up at night.
It frightened me.
How could God do this
to her? She has a son,
a daughter. Oh, my poor father.

Act Two – a few
years after, God was a vampire.
He attacked her throat.
“Not this.”
“Not again.”
“Not now.”
Radiation didn’t make her
Spiderman, it just
dried her up. And I
died watching.
But she lived.
I still haven’t forgiven
God.