This is Only a Test (2016)
“On the longest days, I make a beeping sound, then turn to my phone, tell your mother, “Hey, I got a text. Says sorry it’s late, but it’ll be here any minute.”
You’re not.
You are not here one minute and you are not here the next.
Are we concerned by your late arrival? Yes, secretly, though the midwives insist that your tardiness is hardly unusual.
Relax. Babies do not wear wristwatches.
This seems like sound advice.
Nevertheless, TV has convinced us that there must be scientific certainty to yo...ur arrival.
We understand that there is to be the breaking of water, the white-knuckled pushing, and then you are ours—promptly at forty weeks.
Better late than never, I tell your mother, and when that doesn’t work, I say, Hey, at least it’s not an if, but a when.
We are grateful that you are a when, and we are equally grateful that you held tight when that tornado tore through our town. You were just a poppy seed then, half a thumbnail bobbing in an endless ocean, the definition of vulnerable.MoreLess
You’re not.
You are not here one minute and you are not here the next.
Are we concerned by your late arrival? Yes, secretly, though the midwives insist that your tardiness is hardly unusual.
Relax. Babies do not wear wristwatches.
This seems like sound advice.
Nevertheless, TV has convinced us that there must be scientific certainty to yo...ur arrival.
We understand that there is to be the breaking of water, the white-knuckled pushing, and then you are ours—promptly at forty weeks.
Better late than never, I tell your mother, and when that doesn’t work, I say, Hey, at least it’s not an if, but a when.
We are grateful that you are a when, and we are equally grateful that you held tight when that tornado tore through our town. You were just a poppy seed then, half a thumbnail bobbing in an endless ocean, the definition of vulnerable.MoreLess
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