Aunt History has to remind her husband
There are births to be celebrated
He’s so preoccupied with death
She names the big ones
Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus
But that’s just to wake him
Then she gets to the miraculous blastulas
“They’re unborn but on the way” she says
“They will keep us in business”
He’s been reading “Notes from Underground”
(His favorite)
“I say let the world go to hell
But I should always have my tea.”
He’s a needle nosed sourpuss
Births happen anyway
He recites more Dostoevsky:
“It is better to be unhappy
And know the worst
Than to be happy
In a fool’s paradise.”
“You see how it goes” his wife says
“As always,
You leave me to do all the thinking…”
Planet of the Blind 