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Chapter Two – A Birthday
A child is born on the North Shore of Boston, Massachusetts. The birth is difficult and has many complications, and the child’s mother doesn’t survive. As for the young girl, she is born with a perfectly formed head, but the rest of her body is so disfigured and shriveled that it is barely visible, and her odds of survival are slim. Her father, in an effort not to lose her, begs the doctor for a way to save his daughter’s life. The doctors begin an experimental procedure. They construct a mechanical torso out of clockwork parts and spare wires. An automaton. The girl’s head is attached to the apparatus at the neck. In what could be described as no less than a medical miracle, she survives.

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Hello my name is I was born without a body / just a head with brains for poetry / and my arms all gnarled and knotty / but my father, oh, he loved me / though I took his lover from him / on the day that I had lost it, she was taken from this existence
And the doctor took my head and he attached it to a ribcage / made of steel and bolts and wires / and he pulled at me with pliers / and the lights were bright and shining / over the table and the gurney / and I must have screamed so loud it would have shaken the whole city / and they cranked my heart for beating and put gears in my knees for walking / told me I’d never be pretty / told me I’d never feel anything
Oh mother did you love me when you sacrificed your body / or did my hideous form kill you like the kids at my school tell me
Oh mother did you love me when you sacrificed your body / or did I torment and disgust you with my legs all curled and rotten

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from Hello My Name Is I Was Born Without A Body, released August 19, 2016

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