I was born in the eleventh hour
Fifty minutes and some odd seconds
My mother took the gas
Why wouldn't you, she would say
Later
I was born in the eleventh hour
Umbilical cord wrapped around my
Neck, jaundiced, kept in the hospital
Birthmarked
I was supposed to be dead
Choked by that which was
Supposed to sustain me
Well I'm alive.
I was born in the eleventh hour
Of some Aquarian dream
I used to like to keep fish
Until my twin Angel fish
Barbara
Died
That's what I got
Born in the eleventh hour
One January
My birthmark is hardly
Visible
(These Days)
I got other marks more visible
More diseases that puss up
On a regular basis
I was born in the eleventh hour
