<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535597" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How It Was I Came To Be What I Am</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[from early poems,1970's, youthful attempts at voice]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For 'Spider' Bottas</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They would argue over tides<br>Who bade me come into the world.<br>One said, Six o'clock.<br>The other, No, twelve.<br>I was born at the thirteenth hour<br>All the while mother arguing, <br>This is not the time but a little spell, <br>While father argued it was death, <br>You are dying and your child, too, <br>Is dying. You have been poisoned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was full moon and high tide, <br>The hour of birth.<br>All arguments yielded to the tide's.<br>The moon lit up the stadium <br>Of their gripes while I was <br>Born amidst their sweeps at<br>Each other, the nurse neglecting<br>To wipe me free of blood and salt<br>Being drawn into their strife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was born at day, one said.<br>No, at night, and he is a she, <br>Said the other. The nurse, <br>Speaking truthfully, said, <br>Cleaning me at last, No, <br>You are both right. The child<br>Is he and she, a hermaphrodite<br>Born of two days labor, its head<br>Out of the womb the duration.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ruination! father cried.<br>Fame, mother sighed.<br>Both right, the nurse agreed, <br>Of these fables are made. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then father tossed me into the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nurse saved me who later<br>Became my lover, hiding my <br>Sexes with a four leaf clover.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Warren+Falcon">Warren Falcon</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535597" data-title="How It Was I Came To Be What I Am de Warren Falcon" data-description="[from early poems,1970's, youthful attempts at voice] For 'Spider' Bottas They would argue over tides Who bade me come into the world. One said, Six o'clock. The other, No, twelve. I was born at the thirteenth hour All the while mother arguing, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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