Even in gestation, homo sapiens lay waste 

as they take up space 

in their stretched, wet worlds, 

as if to be human means to destroy 

that which affords you life—

If they must, the unborn will suck

the very calcium from their mother’s teeth.

But a uterus doesn’t need a bleary-eyed invader

to play double agent or slow assassin.

This is the only convincing evidence 

of a male god 

of creation: a woman’s body is perfectly designed 

to try to kill her.