birds do it bees do it

at an early

age,

you look around

in a grocery

store

and it suddenly occurs to you,

that these people,

all of these

people

at one time or another

are having sex

and making babies.

you're just a kid,

a mere child,

but you know enough

about the birds

and the bees

to get the gist of it.

you've seen the crude

etchings on the back

of school walls

depicting in

primitive ways what's

going on.

fat

and skinny, tall

and small,

meek

and wild.

all of them are getting it

on. even the old,

for God's sake

are taking off their

clothes

and rolling in the hay.

how long will it be 

before you too

are part of the in crowd.