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Designer Baby




How am I meant to feel

It's the question of my life

From being so happy

To crying in times of strife

To have a baby

Or not have one

It’s the golden question

It seems to have become


I have now decided

Two week since I wrote

That the baby thing

Is kind of a float

I went to see a doctor

Who put a wand up inside

My womb was crying 

It could no longer hide


She said we’d be fine

And be able to conceive

Naturally she added

You wouldn’t believe


Just before we left 

She called us back in

To the tiny white room

Where it did all begin

You know,

She said

I can make it designer

Blue eyes or brown

But maybe not you red hair

You don’t want it to mistaken for a clown


So blue eyes we choose

And basic brown hair

The baby in the end

Probably won't care

We didn’t want it to have creativity

Turns out its more problematic 

Then you think it would be


Years at art school

Painting into the night

The fumes will make them high

High as a fucking kite


But 

Like every parent will say

It really doesn’t matter

As long as they’re happy

The rest will fall into place


But the naive parent thinking

Is that everything will be just fine


Little do the know

That there mother could rhyme


A strange thing happened when I did give birth

I couldn't stop the rhymes 

It was kind of a curse


The young child didn't understand

Why its mother was so

But then realised she went to art school 

And then it made sense


The designer baby turned out to be a massive expense.










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