Enfield Mod 53

Present Residents
Womb (n): 1: See "The Uterus" 2: A place where something is generated. 3: An encompassing, protective hollow or space, especially when dark or warm

Some might find it was odd, or even distasteful,

to compare a Enfield living arrangement to the dank cocoon of gestational development.

But when eight sociopaths live within an echo chamber of sporadic eccentricity,

bouncing bits of theatrical nonsense off tapestries

they undergo mitosis of minds -

splitting into pleasant madness while they stew within their own juices

in a manner much akin to the curling of a pulpy fetus.

What young may come from such helter-skelter incubation?

Perhaps they will whoosh between these legs of wall

already old men, reclining in green chair or awkwardly straddling an unbalanced futon.

Perhaps, as wailing infants, they will be silver balls bound down plastic tracks

rolling with some unknown inertia.

But for now, they'll suckle from the umbilicus of this erratic edifice,

growing into babies of a strange and lumpy shape.

Many questions populate this placenta of nourishment:

What mysteries lie behind the cryptic smile of Madam C.J. Walker?

Why are there stab wounds in the bathroom cabinet?

and why is there a shopping cart in the kitchen?

Alas, answers come less frequently than alcohol

and they are content to let mysteries sleep like the unborn young:

suspended from the bacchic belly of an oft maternal blood-pumper.