Do you want to be aborted little fetus?
Or do you want to enter the world?
Do you think you’d like pollution?
Politics and war?
Or maybe a religion
And settle an ancient score?
You don’t know what it’s like out there
Your mama doesn’t want you
And your papa doesn’t care
And you’d be a pain
A drudgery and a drain
Do you want to be aborted little fetus?
Or d’you want to experience?
Do you think you’d like sunsets?
Dogs, jokes and sex?
Or the thrill of mind and muscles moving
And knowing you’re a being
Who can love?
You don’t know what it’s like out there
Your mama doesn’t want you
And your papa doesn’t care
And you’d be a pain
A drudgery and a drain
But then again?

ROBIN’S RUDE SONGS AND POEMS, Robin Sharpe, Kalayaan Publications, 1990