This next poem is--
the title is a quote.
It's "What will she go as?"
It was not lost on anyone that the baby was
due to be born near Halloween.
What will she go as?
We made a list of iconic infants:
Moses in the rushes, manger Jesus, baby Jessica
slipped down a well in 87 and rescued on live TV.
Some people credit the Gulf War Scud
with commencing the age of cable news,
but it was baby Jessica, no contest.
Even so, I prefer the Lindbergh baby.
Both parents could dress as Lindbergh,
matching leather jackets and flap
hats with appended glasses, bomber brown.
This costume works the best if the baby is nowhere
to be found.