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Hard Labor.

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When they first presented
her with the baby she said,

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I don't ever want to see
this fucking thing again.

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The next day she relented,
and with stiff arms

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received the soft and
weightless bundle, glared away

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her husband and the nurse.

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She stroked the fontanel
and looked inside.

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A cloud swirled.

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Snow was falling.

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A fat baby spun around on
a spike, slower and slower.

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She turned it over
and shook it a bit,

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and started it snowing again.

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The baby spun.

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I remember an old
woman, so angry

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at her son she threatened to
put him back where he came from.

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In Rome, the nursing
mother of a bastard child

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would smear her
breasts with opium.

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In Herod's massacre
of the innocents,

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all were slain, except
the one he aimed for.