Our fathers glitch by fifty,

hearts freeze framed mid-

pump.

 

Our mothers metastasize,

pass errors womb to womb

to breast.

 

I enter GodMode:

swallow the tail end of life

and cheat death / cheat code / cheat

this failing body, this inheritance

I never asked for.

 

GodMode is a common cheat code in video games, giving unlimited ‘lives’.

 

 

By Jack Cooper