Kit Kelen #239 - on the evidence

239

on the evidence

when I was born, I don't remember

but I am convinced it took place

I have studied the chronicles

and believe a great many other things transpired in my absence

(when I say absence, I mean recollection

like the witness in the box

lame with 'can't recall')

then there's what I was told about me and the times

the annoying noises I made

and various other things I got away with on account of people's

(very few in number admittedly)

having found me cute, and my antics endearing

though there are earlier glimpses

my own recollection proper begins

just shy of five

there are competing stories

but events on television date things

I believe my parents (so-called)

to have been intimately associated

with what I have come to think of

as a point of origin

my conclusions are of course circumstantial

nevertheless, they're what I have to go on

there's no doubt they were accessories after the fact

sine qua non of my saying this now

I believe it all must have been dream to begin

but with what can one dream in there?

I think being born was

a slippery dip

and a lucky dip too

one of those moments

and no going back

somehow though

I remember the dark

goodbye cruel womb!

now for some proper conversation