| Now during these hours is a Ashanti Mask as my body cast holding together these
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| withered bones
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| Now my vineyards have grown but not as an apple orchard
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| The branches are inward prone sprouting bashful portraits of this abused child
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| Who was conceived on a swivel chair by perfect strangers
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| Dressed like three little bears and Mommy’s cervix as a manger
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| Cradling the crude fetus a nude Jesus wearing a pair of shoes Adidas
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| Doing windmills in a yolk sack when daddy plays the showdance
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| I fought God when she willed my daughter in to existence pouring distilled
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| water on the pistons of my hot rod
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| Fueled by youthful vigor and I saw it as a the collision of the Earth and Sun
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| But it was extinguished, with embryonic fluids in a squirt gun
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| Now dreading her teen years I go to job interviews wearing a shirt stained with
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| baby vomit
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| Cleaning her ears with a cotton swab while we’re in an inner tube being towed
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| by Hailey’s Comet
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| I’ll put her first words in a safety deposit
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| You can think that I’m irresponsible and unfit
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| But my Pooh Bear won’t leave McDonald’s with a full stomach
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| (Where'd I come from daddy?)
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| I was (?wailing?) Mommy had Daddy’s dick fondled and I come quicker than a
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| gieser of love
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| I have to install the car seat before I drive the bus
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| And I was like, this weekend is mine
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| What’s with this runny nose?
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| What do you mean we can’t go to the park?
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| The school’s where all of our money goes?
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| Her shirt’s already too small
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| Stop yelling, I’m just a dumb man and our child’s inherently good
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| God bless my unplanned parenthood |