about face

the apostrophe is the opposite
of sex 
I learned

the word/s meaning 
address/es absence
as well as possession

it means something
is missing
that this relates to that

or that this was never there
and frustration marks 
when theyre left out

on the front page 
left in the gents 
at the British Library today

apparently now
mothers can give birth with
their mothers womb/s

what and who is whose  
something we may choose to discuss
when touring nuclear plants

in the throes of death
or fear of death
or of the throes

O the possessive
O the apostrophe
O not to be possessed
    by the turned away