Interview With A Midwife

"I wish I was white
Like you,
And didn't know nothin'
About birthin' no babies !
I wish I never had cut the cord
Or ever slap no baby's behind til it cry.
I wish I'd never seen some of these man
That got up in here and got these girls in the family way.
Makes me want to slap the world
And reattach it's umbilical cord,
Shove it back up in some primordial vagina from whence it came,
Back up into the womb to gestate some mo',
Cause it ain't ready.
It's premature,
And it ain't gonna make it, y'all,
Unless it has time to get right,
Develop up to a point
Where it can survive it's upbrangin'."

-jenn