date: 01.06.97
age: 16
grade: 11
rank: 08
Hello Little Baby,
What brings you to this world?
Your life is beginning far, far from here,
and yet, you wound up with this.
I'm not sure whether I should have pity or envy...
for you...
really had no say in the matter,
more of a "forced" choice,
a card from the hands of a magician.
Get used to it, Little Baby, as fate deals the deck
that will determine your destiny.
And so your youth begins, as we believe it is our duty,
to make you feel... welcome.
Enjoy it Little Baby, enjoy it while you can,
your seemingly deaf and dumb silence,
thinking anything you want... from your internal crystal sphere.
Open it... before you're oppressed, unable to speak a word from it.
Don't form words too soon, though, 'fore you know it,
floods of perceptions will be crammed into your tiny brain,
until it cracks... causing you to leak
ideas you neither thought nor wanted.
All too quickly your childhood careens
toward the black hole of adulthood,
as you...
as everyone else has...
are pushed toward that pot of gold, that "American" dream,
the rainbow, never ending, that seems so rewarding,
but hardly produces gold.
And where do you fit in? Well you're
THE FUTURE
All the hopes and dreams of past generations are combined,
and force-fed to you.
Swallow it down, or choke on the burden.
Once you can breathe, your only hope lies in Fate's Casino.
So take your chances, Little Baby, on the roulette wheel of life.
Place your bets and hope it's your lucky day.
Some say the house pays often,
but I can see the magnet under the dealer's table.