I well remember from a Sociology course in college, reading about some tribe, deep in the jungles somewhere - that when the Woman started her Labor pains, the Man went out into the jungle and experienced real and severe Sympathy Pains!

It may have been one of Margaret Meade's tremendous treatises?

Anyway - is there a MID-WIFE in the house? OUCH!

AFTERBIRTH

© - Tom Hyland - 07-27-08


Your Mind Wanders Lustfully -
It Seeks New Pleasures -
A Seductive Muse Amuses You -
Her Wares Are Treasures -


In Time - It Becomes Pregnant -
With Ideas Of New Birth -
An Embryo Begins -
It Grows - It Stirs -


It Kicks - Labor Starts -
A Labor Of Love -
Excruciating Pain Develops -
A New-Born Poem Is Your Trove -


The Excess Must Be Eliminated -
The Umbilical Must Be Cut -
The Excrement Edited -
A Purifying Lavabo Is Put -


Baby Boy - Or Baby Girl?
It Matters Not!
Your Child Is Healthy -
A Cute Little Tot!


After-All - The After-Math -
Of After-Pains - And - After-Clap -
Render The After-Piece -
As After-Effect - And - After-Glow -


You’re Proud As A Peacock -
Must Show And Tell - And Strut -
Yes - This Is Mine!
And -


I Ain’t No Slut!


After-Birth ?


© - TKH