ON BABIES AND BABYMAKING

By Jack Bumby

When it comes to the ritual of making babies,

there are two schools of thought.

There is what is usually done and what ought,

the latter ignored amid the pleasure and bliss

after all, unprotected sex is a winner all round

even with a schedule and rigid timetable

there is understandable joy for most to be found.

And this can blur the lines

obfuscate the question

of whether having a baby is a moral crime

a defiant symbol of hope

or pardon the suggestion

neither of the above.

Because we're told that the world is over

and the planet is going to hell in a fuckbasket,

or maybe it has always been this way?

A string of doubting parents getting ready to ask if

what they're doing is a mistake or whether

the child will come to hate them for it

when the bombs rain down or the weather

washes, burns, or starves them to hell.

And ultimately they'll make the decision

or their bodies make it for them. Oh well,

they'll say. What were we worried about?

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