Its fifty miles back after being away There’s a brand new baby at home in the hay
Christmas and New Year’s have come and gone Now I wonder if I still belong
I’m biding some time before seizing a moment My eyes and ears are quite frankly wide open
This one little line repeated so trite “He looked like Churchill what an awful sight”
Hurt and angry and feeling unwanted I dropped the bomb “Was I born…or adopted?”
A flurry of answers came back with a scream: “So what’s the difference You see what I mean?”
“That’s all behind you just look ahead” “Things were hard enough with your hair so red”
Descramble a name which reads like the war Only one letter short to name three babies more
After his birth by about the sixth week My adoption was sealed I lived like a freak
Taken for a ride I was four years old “…going to see a lawyer” that’s all I was told
Neighbour at the door with blood on her dress A birth had occurred oh, what a mess
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“When you have a baby…” (I’m enlightened at four) “…they cut you open" -I imagined her floor-
Speaking of floors have I ever said, that toilet training was all in her head?
Put down some newspaper and make him sit there That was her method ‘cause she didn’t care
This is for sure That baby…was tummy (So whatever happened to my very first mummy)
For the next six years Until my departure I served in the pantry, The cupboard and parlour
“Stand in the corner, get down on your knees!” Lie in that bed full of puke and green peas
Abandoned! Runover! and whipped with wet clothes Why do you ask for a nice piece of prose?
Soap in my mouth and clothes-pins on ears They bought two straps and whipped me for years
She’s thirty-nine all over from her head to her toe My God…I’m packed I have to go
Beware of the lies and any old secret There was no stork just a big fat egret.
-Epilogue- Death is my mother our reunion at hand Adopt me not! this is my stand.
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