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"Found in the Cabbage Patch."

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You know, the
French are supposed

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to tell their
children, when they

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ask Mommy, where did I come
from, they're supposed to say,

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you were found in
the cabbage patch.

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And I never understood why.

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I was brought up on
the stork, myself.

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But I did understand it when
we first planted cabbage,

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and I saw those green
heads, which really

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looked like babies' heads.

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"The shiny head is
round, full term,

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between the spread
leaves of its mother.

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I come as the midwife, a
kitchen knife in my hand.

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There.

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No lusty cry, this
child is silent.

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Two white moths hover and
flutter, milky attendants

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in perpetual motion.

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I leave the mother's
wound for the sun to heal.

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The stump of the newborn
dries in the crook of my arm.

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I am the witch cradling the
pale green head, murmuring,

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'little one, you look
good enough to eat.'"

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[QUIET LAUGHTER]

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