Baby in a Bottle

 

All my female friends
have a baby in a bottle
maybe it is their age
maybe it is the times
but it doesn't really matter
because up high on a shelf
they all have a baby in a bottle
It always comes out,
late on evening.
you trip on a wire and it comes tumbling down
the shatters opening
the old scare that oozes pain,
liquid fears, dripping down the cheek
I sit in disbelief as usual.
sad but not really surprised
because all my female friends
have a baby in a bottle, up high on a shelf
I know, my male friends put them there.

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Copyrighted by Michael Cooke, 2000.