This Baby Never Moves...

This baby Never Moves.

The head is underneath
my right rib-bone
and the feet feel like
they're trying to test the air
on the outside every time I pee.

Draw your knees up, little one -
it feels like I'm being split
down the middle.
I even check the toilet before flushing.

It's gotta be a girl,
it's so quiet,
not like being pregnant
with Jeremy at all.

I never worried
about you not kicking me -
your feet seemed
in too dangerous
a place for kicking
and it would have hurt like hell.

I never dreamed you COULDN'T kick.

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