WAIT A MINUTE

Most of us remember the thwacked
nature of birth,
where at one point our own internal
midwives said jump while the
planet spun and spun and spun.

So, with the exception of C-section
babies, then,
who were lifted and not hurled from
the watery womb,
aren't we all just a bunch of
overgrown jetsam around here?

© 2003 Daniel X. O'Neil

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