you don’t get a birth certificate

for being hatched

nor for crawling out

from under a rock

you don’t get one for being a hand job

or an abortion (all the fuss is about?)

or for being a shit (literally)

and you corporate persons?

show me your birth certificates please

I’d like to see how you got

all these rights us born folks

don’t got

does Donald Trump have a birth certificate?

nah  he was the baby in It’s Alive

the doctors tried to kill

but he got away

does Glenn Beck have a birth certificate?

I just don’t think an ooze out of slime

can legitimately be called birth

so come on, you scumbags

show us your birth certificates

cause it’s getting harder and harder

for us to believe you were really born

I mean, if you were, it must have been

through a very unnatural act

so stay away from the schoolyards please

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.