Can anyone who's read The Fallen Birdman by Roger McGough tell me why...?

Aug 19, 2008 by Turtleonfire! | Posted in Poetry

..in the 3rd paragraph he describes the man as having a womb? What (if anything) is this supposed to symbolise?

The poem runs as follows:

The oldman in the cripplechair
Died in transit through the air
And slopped

The primary thing that the line "As raindrops danced in his womb" does for me is evoke the image of a very mutilated body. The old man's body has become a bloody mush - his corpse has burst open and splattered its contents all over the road

Feste | Aug 19, 2008

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20.05.12

Gunaselan said the driver tried to conceal the tank by covering it with canvas and piling old tyres on it. Initial investigations showed that the driver was hired by a diesel smuggling syndicate which sold the subsidised fuel to factories in... State Domestic Trade enforcement chief M. Gunaselan said the team suspected that something was amiss when the driver, in his 20s, drove to several petrol stations, moments after filling up at the earlier ones. "When we stopped the lorry, the tank was already half full, with diesel worth about RM43,000," he said recently. He said the team moved in when the driver stopped at a petrol station in Bandar Baru Air Itam at about 7pm on Monday.

Source: New Straits Times

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