Of Barbies
Then babies
Knit scarves
and stealth bombers
Backyard chickens
Other people’s children
Unseen paintings
Apps
And rescue terriers
Queens on toothpick towers
With revolving debt
Daycare
Unbalanced budgets
Abandoned dissertations
All nighters
Good jobs in IT
Won with AP scores
And Fannie Mae
Summers waitressing
Touches endured
For the tips
Making dinner
Making love
Zygotes to teens
Glimpsing glory
Through drying canals
Paint tubes
And stretched panties
in basement studios
Turned laundry
Helpmeets
Help needed
Begging
For heaven’s aid
For stardust
Strength
Time for creation
A chance
To be gods
without expiration dates
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