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Poetry | June 2011

The ABCs of Parenting

By David Harris Ebenbach

A baby comes;
drop everything.
Forget goals,
however indispensable.
Judge knowledge lightly.
Meekly, now:
open primers,
quote,
recycle seriously
the usual vertiginous
welcome:
xylophone, yellow,
zebra.

1 reply on “The ABCs of Parenting”

Ellen Cohensays:
June 6, 2011 at 12:07 pm

All I can say is “wow”.

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