"A knock on the motel door
while I was in Provo...
"It's a boy!"
The expected happened...
we had been transported
into grandparent-land.
My early amazement
surfaced a surprising
primitive response.
It was about my blood-line
not being extended past
mid-21st century.
The next thought was...
if there is
a 21st century!
Suddenly long-time concerns about
earth-survival
are intensely personal.
I am a grandfather...
and I want a world
for my grandson.