“May 12, 1944” by Andrew Merton

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Evidence that We Are Descended from ChairsI arrived a week early
with eleven toes

but the Allies broke through in Italy,
women got the vote in Bermuda,

and a man in Louisville, Kentucky,
was granted a patent

for waterproof cigarette paper
treated with aluminum,

so none of the newspapers
took note of my birth.

As for my family,
my brother was at school,

my father at war.
My mother was in a scopolamine trance.

There was no one to greet me
but the black cocker spaniel

who later taught me to crawl.

–Andrew Merton,
Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs
Accents Publishing

More from Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs and Andrew Merton:

Andrew MertonAndrew Merton has been a political reporter and columnist for the Gloucester (Massachusetts) Times, The Boston Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and a contributing editor with Boston Magazine. His articles and essays have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, Yankee Magazine and The Boston Phoenix. His book Enemies of Choice was published by Beacon Press in 1980, and his anthology In Your Own Voice: A Writer’s Reader was published by Harper Collins in 1995. His poetry has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Powhatan Review, Paper Street, The Comstock Review, Silk Road, Third Wednesday, The American Journal of Nursing and elsewhere. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire.

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