Isn't It Weird

to think that everyone

was once a baby?

I was once a baby, and so were you.

Your parents – they were once babies too.

Even your Great Aunt Beryl,

with her hairy chin and shrivelled skin like a prune,

she was once a baby.

Maybe not a very attractive baby,

but a baby nonetheless.

Your teachers?

Your teachers were once babies.

Every single one of them.

And that teaching assistant

who seems about a million years old,

she was once – you guessed it – a baby.

She may even have been

a very cute, squishy baby.

And also your…

you know what, it doesn’t matter!

whoever you think of –

they were once a baby.

A teeny, tiny little baby.

Isn’t that weird?

Joshua Seigal