Cells

Cursed by biology Burdened by my family Screwed by talk of teenage dreams With the aid of government funding I turned to drugstore chemistry For results that I could read Lo and behold the test agreed The truth cut deep, but did not bleed Sympathetic bureaucrats Led me through the proper paths Leaving in my trail a wake of Crumpled tissue paper carnage Poor enough to suit their needs All the bureaucrats agreed I qualified for quality Clinic care and surgery The cells that grow inside They all multiply, multiply and divide One plus one make three Three minus one makes me The battle of biology Is decided by chronology Awaiting my appointment Every moment was my enemy Each second like a piece of lead The ticks and tocks rattled my head Until the day finally came My body’d never be the same Pricked and scanned, too weak to stand My fate inside rubber gloved hands I moved against a cold machine To measure cells inside of me And their machines could scan and see And all the doctors did agree So I took the pills that made me bleed The truth cut deep but I was freed The cells all burst and die Tissue rips apart as blood drips down my thighs Love plus love makes family But I had to trim my family tree Until you lose control of your insides You can never understand what it feels like My body is no one's property So I don't want to hear your policy And it shouldn't be the job of old white guys To legislate on what goes on between my thighs My body is no one's property So I don't want to hear your policy And whose to say if it’s okay To throw a miracle away Life created by mistake What love gave medicine takes And I had no choice but to cry As the future I’d planned flashed before my eyes Love plus love makes family But I had to trim my family tree