“Born.
So he was born, too.
Born like everyone else.
Like me, who will die.
The son of an actual woman.
A new arrival from the body's depths.
A voyager to Omega.”

"Born"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)

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Polish writer 1923–2012

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