Nuchal

by Varlots

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Sometime in 2020, there was a point where I was revisiting hospital records involving my nuchal birth before being adopted and becoming an American citizen. Most nuchal births, where an infant is strangulated by the umbilical cord, are harmless. The first few months of my life were spent in a hospital as this was the one out of ten chances it was harmful to an infant. At the time of revisiting this event as an adult, I suffered a mental break from reality where I was hallucinating people were following me in order to hang me with a noose. Felt like a strange way to come back to these events in a way that was just as unpleasant as the first. The spoken word element was a recollection of a dream I had the preceding year. - Stephen Edwards

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Separation bears
A shrouded guilt
A violation
Left unbuilt
Consolation left
Buried in the mill
An isolation curves and
Cracks the will

Unprepared
For the worst
I’ve been choking
Since my birth
Vacant stare
Is unrehearsed

A suffocating
Dour reminder
That our misfortunes
Should not define us
Anymore

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released October 12, 2022
Engineered/Mixed by Scot Moriarty at Backroom Studios in Rockaway, NJ
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music
Art Design by Sarah Zarina Hakani
Photography by Ryan Treppedi

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