O, Ye of Little Faith

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This narrative is, tragically, 100% true...

They had two children
  a boy and a girl
They'd done their bit
  for a crowded world

Billions then living in poverty
  Conditions heartbreakingly unsanitary 
The 'moral' thing for parents to do
  If having kids, stop at two 

So dad had a vasectomy
  Quickly and quite easily
His tubes were tied
  Hs conscience satisfied... 

Yet just eight months later
  He wished he'd had
  an appendectomy
  or tonsillectomy --
anything but a vasectomy
,
For his baby daughter had died of SIDS
  and now he could father no more kids
Just as painful, down the road
  his son came out as gay
    ~ No grandchildren for him; no way

"Be fruitful and multiply"
  Was commanded not just to the fruit fly
But to Adam and Eve, now mocked with mirth --
  Though my poor friend with a vasectomy
     Knows only pain on this Earth 

He wants you to have as many children as you can
   Not to think that you're privy to the Divine plan

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