Milking the Paidiska

Venomous activation
Of prolactin receptors
Inducing nulliparous lactation
For the sake of your salvation

Regulating her metabolism
Influencing hormonal reactions
Creating antidotes
To mind-bending poisons
Rendering them consumable

Self-induced dermal lacerations
Skin lesions from chain whipping
Methods of administering
Neurotoxic substances

Her wounds are wrapped in linen
Soaked in viperid venoms
Absorbed intravenously

The snake, offered the breast
Draws in clotted blood
With the virgin milk

Vipers' knots are wrenched apart
And joined again
And serpent dies when breathed upon
By human poison

Her daily purification rituals
Involve a chemical barrage
Enclosed in confined space
Inhaling toxic fumes
And only eating food
Containing poison

Re-tuning her system
To whatever drugs are at hand
Creating mammary gland-modified
Metabolites of the complex concoctions
Of botanicals and toxins
She consumes on a daily basis

Her future, a Medusa
And eventually
An oracular temple priestess

Endogenous producer of unique antibodies
In concert with death-inducing drugs
To create communion