Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks May 2015: Equality | Page 2

Tip the Scales

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ine months we’ve been making these chapbooks. If we were a child this would
be our birth month. Imagine that. Oh, but we’d be a lovely baby all the same.
Would we have green eyes, maybe? All good characters have green eyes. And perhaps
russet hair? Maybe we’d have ten fingers and toes, and a funny birth mark shaped like
Seamus Heaney’s face on the inside of our left thigh. Maybe we’d have two moms.
Four dads. An alien for a godfather. Sylvia Plath as a babysitter.
Funny thing about kids, see. They don’t really mind who looks after them, so long
as the house is full of love, and food, and classic children’s cartoons (seriously, man,
ever see a kid watching Road Runner with a frown on his face? No. No you have not.)
But hey, we’re not here to lecture you on the merits of a Stanzas baby, we’re here to
produce quality work from original Limerick talent. So here it is. And, well, if it gets
a little preachy, rest easy knowing the day you find someone you love, we’ll write you
a sonnet, and not get in the way of the ceremony.
Peace, Love, and Happy
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