Anne Haigis Shrink
Now post-natal depressions starts the day that you were born The product of an accidental meeting on a train A slap to start you crying, the milk to make you stop You suck until you're satisfied and choke on erery drop You don't want to tremble You don't want to shake But you must Cause water tasted like ashes And apples tastes like dust And some days you wake and the phone won't ring The postman's died, the birds don't sing The mercury's falling so fast, the flowers all freeze It's a shock that you have to go back to school To learn how to walk and crawl And even to breathe They drag you from a woman, as bright as a new pin To spend a troubled lifetime, tryin' hard to crawl back in And every day your mirror shows the blemish of your soul But no one seems to notice that there's no one in control And you don't want to tremble You don't want to shake But you must Your knees turn to water Your bones begin to rust And some days you wake and the phone won't ring The postman's died, the birds don't sing The mercury's falling so fast, the flowers all freeze It's a shock that you have to go back to school To learn how to walk and crawl And even to breathe
