--- johnirving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, it's not a Joni song... but the way I've always
> taken the meaning of
> the questioning in How do you stop, (ie. how to stop
> growing corn or a
> baby being born) is that it's not meant to be a
> direct question. (Which
> begets direct answers: Obviously abortion, poisons,
> etc.)
> john.
it's funny, i guess because i've watched a baby
actually being born, that's what *always* instantly
pops into my head when i hear the song, and when i
read your post. i think the song is trying to relate
that unstoppable sense, that urgency, inevitability.
it's very effective imagery for me. there's no way to
keep a baby from coming out of the womb once the labor
process has begun. unless their little shoulders get
stuck, like my godson, but that's another story.
i think if you've ever seen a baby actually coming out
of a woman, it's pretty scarring. literally, ha ha.
no, really, it's magical and incredible and it's why i
use birth control unfailingly. LOL.
alison e. in nyc
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