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Hermaphrodite

(This is a fictional poem) My neighbor does something that's out of sight. He has babies by himself because he's a hermaphrodite. He has one baby after another. It's not easy being both a father and a mother. He was raised to believe that it's wrong for a father and mother to be unwed so he married himself. He has twenty kids so he's not big on wealth. He wears dresses in public and he looks weird. He's the only person in a dress who has a beard. People tell him that he should stop having babies and he agrees. But he doesn't know whether he's supposed to get his tubes tied or to have a vasectomy.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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