048 • Fudge
As far as I’m able to judge
All children are partial to fudge
Hence my gift for your spawn
When s/he’s finally born:
This slab of brown fossilised sludge.
To give sweets to a child, in this era, is to risk arrest. And would the pregnant mother be well-advised to devour this farsighted present herself, in hopes of forestalling childhood obesity in years to come?