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By Misti Date: 2005 May 27 Comment on this Work [[2005.05.27.02.54.26124]] |
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your sister calls you at work a few hours before you're fired to tell you that she is pregnant you say Oh My God she laughs you can hear your nephew, her son babbling in the background It Isn't Funny you say your sister had a job offer in Manhattan which she turned down because there aren't enough Baptist churches in the Big Apple your sister is talking about starting a childcare in the two-story house she cannot afford you are thinking abortion but don't say it because your sister would hate you for that and you are hated by too many people and you love your sister even though you know she did not read the chapbook you sent her illogically you want to make a baby or two with your new husband it's an insane fantasy like all the rest you have the names picked out Molly Marie for a girl Kiedis Bonham for a boy if you had two girls you have no idea what you'd call the other one but if you had two boys Ozzy Zappa is a possibility you will wait take the sex when you can get it sell some porn to whoever will buy it self-publish seven books of poetry buy a passport see Ireland/Spain/Brazil move to San Francisco make some movies then settle down without settling and send your sister a series of postcards. |