I am attending my inauguration to life
Full-bodied
Grand-souled
Deep-minded
I am attending my inauguration to truth
Mooning my path to the podium
Mooning their faces to unveil
I am attending my inauguration to sense
Fear-absently
Pain-forbiddingly
Shame-freed
I am attending my inauguration to ail
Buried in golden uterus magma
Patted to breathe
And then you cut my umbilical cord and you wash the blood
While their eyes blink to that second of disconnection.
