Being Born
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The poorest women of Berlin
-- in a room and a half they expect thirteen --
prisoners, outcasts, whores,
writhe here and sob.Nowhere else is there so much screaming.
Nowhere else is suffering and pain
something one so completely ignores
because here something always screams.
"Bear down, woman! Understand? Bear down!
You did not come here to have fun.
Don't draw it out. Don't just wait.
Push even if you evacuate!
You are not here to get a rest.
It doe not come by itself. You have to press!"
At last it comes: small and somewhat blue,
anointed with urine and feces, too.From eleven beads of tears and blood
sobbing greets it as a salute.
A choir rises from only two eyes
to bear jubilation to the skies.Through this little hunk of flesh here all
will pass in time: delight and gall.
And once it dies rattling and meets its doom,
others will fill the twelve beds in this room.