I read a book by Stephen Hawking
so I built a time machine
and vowed that I would witness my own birth.
I set the controls
for 1984.
I set the coordinates for my sleept little hometown.
I got directions to the hospital and waited in the parking lot
and realized that doing this would be way harder than I thought. I snuck inside
and I admit I lied
and told the hospital staff that I was a visiting medical student from a neighboring university.
They asked what kind,
and I replied,
"I'm gonna be an OB-GYN," I said, "I'm gonna be an OB-GYN,"
"An OB-GYN..."
I had the cap
I had the mask
I had the scrubs
I had the gloves
I looked so sharp
I looked the part
and so I started down the hall
down to the room where my dear mom
was pushing out a fat red worm;
the worm was me
and we locked eyes
and then he cried
and then I cried
and I decided that I would visit myself
when I was in the second grade
in the seventh grade
in the eleventh grade...