Mutant Genes: Freaky Families Poem by Terence George Craddock

my father has one leg born shorter than the other and
strange an extra floating thirteenth rib not attached
my mother has head surprising a small piece of brain
growing through her skull like a small nut hair hidden

my elder sister one in a million has one eye in two colours
had a third nipple another genetic normality break ripple
yet I look totally normal despite possessing second sight
seer third eye and a sixth sense lurking beneath the surface

although I must confess I have almost no neck
head is an inch close to sitting on broad shoulders
I am also missing the visible male Adam's apple
while when young my wait curved in like a woman


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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