The Birth of Baby Marrow

Written after watching a YouTube video of a deer giving birth on concrete to the sound of an entire elementary school screaming.

This is not so natural,

deer’s worries. She is a new-age

animal. She doesn’t need your help.

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You, should not have been

in the birth canal that long and

speaking of ruminant quadrupeds,

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school children should not be

present at this event. We can

do it all by ourselves, but

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that’s the way your mommy did it.

Human sacrifices were offered

to Diana. Chiefly figurative.

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Kids or not, the deer falls

beneath the drainage cover and this

cervine performs the function,

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designating the person or form to

be breeched and alone.

No, no don’t get up, come on push.

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Assume the position of a specified

creature, fertile for the Pentecost.