The Birds and the Bees

To talk about ‘The Facts’ makes some parents put on a show, Hatching up answers to questions their children should know, Enduring the same fate as their elders from times long ago. “Babies,” Mommy says, “Come from a big cabbage patch. Indeed! A stork flies over to spot which cabbage to catch. Risking it all, she swoops down for the bundle in just one snatch.” Dad then pipes in, “Not to pick just any, the cabbage must match!” So it goes, as parents quickly warm to the stories they hatch. Anticipation of kids’ questions makes parents sweat rivers. Normally, Junior has never seen Mom so taken with shivers. Dad tries once more to describe just how the stork delivers. “There’s a time when a honeybee was tired from his weary flight, Having flown over too many cabbage fields with no honey in sight. Exactly that moment the stork also was searching with all of her might. Beautiful Stork and sweet Honeybee looked at the other and smiled, Exchanging information, they followed directions each had compiled. Eventually, the bee got to the hive and the stork found her precious child. Son, that’s the story about the birds and the bees flying high out in the wild.”