I was the result of marital blackmail, the primal need to reproduce on one side, the material need for a big house on the other. In other words, calculated fornication with planned consequences.
A late child, I was
slyly concieved
when my poor, ailing mother,
off sick with the flu
had no idea -
it’s true -
and for months
passed me off
as the menopause
and has bloody well suffered since.