No Action (29/36)
Vonnets in an Airport Lounge
If you think catastrophe lies ahead,
Pause. Think. And, perhaps, take no action.
Observe. For as events evolve instead,
hazard may clear to your satisfaction.
While birthing abroad might give a wife fits,
turns out she didn’t have to be so bold.
By the time I got my working permits,
child two was already three plus months old.
Arriving, we found our fears unfounded.
Small boys have many trips to physicians.
Learned modern medical care abounded
for fevers, bruises, unplanned admissions.
Since with the hospitals we were quite pleased,
child three, a daughter (!), was born overseas.
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