Half Empty
married ,and after careful considerationwe wanted a babywe begin making love every day,counting 1-28 days 'Are you pregnant yet''No” I respond and after 6 months no babymy doctor gives me thermometersand tells me to check my temperaturedon't move,don't wash we need a accurate graph of youand when I call to make an appointmentthey shift me to a non-important appointment,because the ob/gyn only has certain days for the non-fertile clinicHe searches my womb scanning my body with metal objectsand I think when did baby making get so hardI thoughtI would have a baby in the first yearAnd then loudly his voice echoesremember he says,'No deodorant soap, fragrancesand in same breathscooch you bottom down andstill wondering, by now I should have been rolling strollersand staying up long nights,doing double shifts with my husbandand watching my baby's first stepsbut after two years no babymy womb is still empty Written November 25th, 2001 © on Nov 24 2001 11:32 PM PST 0 • 1
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"married ,and after careful considerationwe wanted a babywe begin making love every day,counting 1-28 days 'Are you pregnant yet''No” I respond and after 6 months no babymy doctor gives me thermometersand tells me to check my temperaturedon't move,don't wash we need a accurate graph of youand when I call to make an appointmentthey shift me to a non-important appointment,because the ob/gyn only has certain days for the non-fertile clinicHe searches my womb scanning my body with metal objectsand I think when did baby making get so hardI thoughtI would have a baby in the first yearAnd then loudly his voice echoesremember he says,'No deodorant soap, fragrancesand in same breathscooch you bottom down andstill wondering, by now I should have been rolling strollersand staying up long nights,doing double shifts with my husbandand watching my baby's first stepsbut after two years no babymy womb is still empty..."