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WHERE BABIES COME FROM

For my eighth birthday

I got a toy train set

my father helped assemble.

My job was to hand him

pieces of track and re-light

the cigarettes that went out

in his mouth. Halfway

through, I asked him

where babies come from.

He told me that eight years

ago today I showed up

on the front stoop

in a cardboard box, how

he spent the whole afternoon

putting me together,

just like this train set,

that I was probably lucky

the box arrived on a Saturday.