Hard Determined
"A vast majority of human females delight in putting a
baby's welfare at risk --
its entire life."
-- one not "with child"
or "Baby On Board"
* * *
But endless eons several vast eternities ago,
I made a New Year's resolution sound beyond all doubt,
in having learned (unlike my kin in toto somewhat slow)
'tis wise on eyeing countless risks to straightway chicken out
lest birthed one be sans teeth, sans hair, sans intellect, sans brain
to turn a rhymester proud sans talent, cleverness, and wit;
Romanticism full embrace to Reason full disdain;
and full mature at last to be a full half-witted twit
who pretty poems pens on Mother Nature sugar sweet,
the precious gift of life, each god not false, the love true blue,
dreams, wishes, hope, and happiness -- or something more upbeat --
till popular one too should be on scrawling verse brand-new.
Thus, I, this handsome sperm, still yet refuse to wed an egg
without a risk-free guarantee -- though on her knees she beg.
* * *
a dedication of Respect
for
countless Pains unnecessary
beginning at birth
a revolving helios rhyme menippean satire on
the common, saccharine, idealized notion of
human procreation
january, 2023 -- still billions of bullies
stupidly shoving innocents into a world of continuous
Horrors
untold
Copyright © James Starkey Iii | Year Posted 2023
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