- before I was born
- I was noiseless, nothingness
- now I have clasps
- holding my jaw wide open
- my tonsils and my teeth
- are humiliated, lucent
- before I was ripe
- I was bitten by a rancher
- now my sour skin nauseates
- cattle and fowl alike
- my budding life halted
- by blank minded beings
- before I was born
- I was untouched, unrepining