we sit at our desks
all day thinking
of her
feel the pains
when her husband
calls in the
morning
he says
“She is dilated to a 7”
at lunch
“Now an 8”
at closing time
“It’s a 10 and the head
is coming thru!”
the whole building
is pushing
two hundred and forty-one women
shoved
that baby
into the world
today