DITTY, UNRHYMED

Woman with Child
in front of my X-ray eyes
wide-open, lies

on her back forever
frolicking

(her swol'n belly
tossed all about like blubber

& up & down like a ball
on a blanket)

with great excitement
I standing there horrified

how the small unborn baby
in that fat belly O

tossed up & down &
being the butt
of its dumb mother's playing

poor little baby might
break an arm or a leg

O!

so I hit'er
over the head
with a brick

that the small child
might get some rest,

judge--