Everybody’s
mother and everybody’s father
coalesced
collectively into a single couple
who spent
most of the past hour sitting warily
across from
me. The pent-up force of all that
parenthood against
my fragile lone experience,
now only dimly
recollected, of whatever it had
meant to have
a daddy and a mommy didn’t
bode too awfully
well. I mean, come on now!
Damn and hell!
Here I was with this odd cosmos
of
progenitors all crammed into a lady and a man.
What was I
supposed to do? Finally I’d had it.
I said “shoo!” And “scram!” Which evidently
indicated we
had adequately ended the exam.
They evanesced
into a trillion billion quantum-
tiny particles
of brilliant glow and quit the show.
I’ve never
been so happy to see anybody go.
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