Poem: "what the Xperts did not know"

[ysabetwordsmith]

This poem came out of the June 7, 2011 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired by a prompt from minor_architect.  It was sponsored by Shirley & Anthony Barrette.

what the Xperts did not know

the secret Xperiment
came with instructions
in which the Xperts explained such things
as how to raise a genderless child
and how to dress one
and what kind of toys to buy

but the

Comments

[ankh_hpl]

I really liked this one. Reminded me a little of Nancy Kress's Sleepless novels.

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm happy to hear that.

I've seen some of Nancy Kress' work, though not the whole novels ... I think she had a short story or serial or something in that storyline appear in one of the F&SF magazines.