My wife gave birth on Sunday morning to a baby girl, Lydia Mae.
If Lydia ever reads this poem, I hope she admires it, if she admires it, in a detached and impersonal sort of way.
About the title: Am I wrong to think I detect a resigned contempt for the taste of the poetry reading public? "Out of all the poems I've written, this slight one with the f-bombs is the one that'll be remembered. . . ."
It turns out that it is the one that I know. And I do admire it--mainly, the way it "deepens" in the concluding stanza. But I have not followed the advice.
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