thinks I'm still pregnant
strollers
stretch mark creams
leggings
that grow
as your belly expands
spend your money
on that which no longer exists!
(and here's a former friend's baby in between ads!)
why haven't you
caught up?
I no longer
hover, click
you idiot
by week 10
(when I've been unpregnant
for as long as I was pregnant)
fertility supplements
instead of bassinets
stupid,
unmoored,
sad and
desperate,
I click and hover.
Lisie Clark is a poet and therapist who lives in Oakland, California who has been trying to make sense of life through poetry since she was little. She finds meaning in helping people be kinder to themselves and relate to their lives with compassion and curiosity. She has two kitties, a very kind partner, and a cat-shaped Karaoke machine in her house.
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