A Few Introductory Remarks
A FEW INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
It’s not, of course—as we tend to spin
the word—fun. I suppose there might be one
out there who prefers the birthing
to the birth, but I haven’t found them
this corner of earth. Here is the thing
inside, wild and kicking and wanting
out, and here—yes, here—is the birth canal
of a ball-point. Get the point? Hope
is our only anesthetic. Grin and bear it.
Heads down now, bending to your labor
like more worlds than yours depends on it.
But depend on it: one day, when it walks
off on legs of its own, returning
to tell you in its own words what it’s seen
past the margins of this small town—
maybe, even, beyond soil and sky—
you’ll know why.
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