the circle of love

It's impossible not to love your kid 
because they come out lookin' all 
fucked up, and then after a short 
period of adjustment hey 
they get all babyish and stuff 

cute in the adorable sense, 
the irresistible force meets 
weird fleeting resemblance 
to each parent, and you're like 

oh my god I loved you so much 
and me so much I wanted to meet 
someone HALF YOU HALF ME 
AND WE DID IT, and 

even if things go wrong later, 
it's pretty crazy seeing that 
weird little thing get the 
googly-eyed mouth-gaping 
drool-hanging hang 
of things 

like turning itself over 
by itself, or 
dragging backwards 
trying to go forwards 
or sitting up 

UP!  

let alone hauling itself 
up on things and falling 
on its ass, let alone 

language. 
"Language." 

It's like 
"look at our fucking 
collage homage genome 
random shuffle-thing learn
how to DO this this"

it's amazing 

you can't even imagine 
how you did it back 
then. And 

you weren't even your own 
genome. You were these two 
huge loud incomprehensible 
people's. They 

were so cute 

at the time