The deeply crippled child Crippled From birth onward A vegetable in a chair A carrot and a potato Squashed together A memorial To her prostitution But the state pays For the child's Affliction Giving his mother Enough to keep her fingers Dipped in Jams And her mouth watered with bacon.
Irwin R. Shaw - March 30th 1981
Bacon
The deeply crippled child
Crippled
From birth onward
A vegetable in a chair
A carrot and a potato
Squashed together
A memorial
To her prostitution
But the state pays
For the child's
Affliction
Giving his mother
Enough to keep her fingers
Dipped in Jams
And her mouth watered with bacon.