She doesn’t look like a Michelle, my mother said
the day I was born.
Broad-shouldered baby.
Eight pound eleven ounce baby.
Jet black overgrown butch hairstyle baby
sticking straight up.
Bruised from a difficult forceps birth baby.
Here’s a football player
the doctor assured her.
I know what a Pamela looks like.
What does a Michelle look like?
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