1982
mon uow my younger brother was born
my parents brought him home

i hid behind the chair
it was november they took
a photograph of my brother
in his crocheted blankie

i remember peering over the
side of the chair and
asking where he came from

and throwing up i was sick
the photograph flashed
while i was puking

i'm not in the photograph
i was hiding, sick behind the chair
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mon uow i remember when prince william was born
in june 1982 according to google

they announced it on tv and radio

i remember asking my mom about it
and her telling me she was pregnant

i remember her telling me
she was going to have a baby

and when they brought him home
being told "i told you so"


i saw storks in cartoons and
tried to remember how 'i got here'

i asked my parents
if they bought my brother
at the hospital


i was told he was born
not bought

and i was born
at home
so i wondered
how it was possible

i thought maybe there were door-to-door
baby sellers, like vacuum salespeople

but i had never met a baby seller

and i didn't know much about hospitals

so none of it made much sense


i had questions. i wanted answers.
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