Severance

A fly’s droning 

Recursive soundtrack 

Triggers robotic hand 

To reach for guillotine 

To squash the proletariat 

To squash primal necessities

Fly guts smeared on the wall

Remains of revolutionary dreaming 

Dishes unwashed and door unlocked 

Sends Baba into a fit of rage

Barraged with howls of

My laziness, my indifference, my

Inability to be a good daughter

Recursive soundtrack,

Decapitation by paternal lambasting

The earth, no longer a pillow 

My heart loses its feathers.