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Hello babies, welcome to Earth   -Kurt Vonnegut

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​In Kurt Vonnegut's world, Eliot Rosewater, a fabulously rich, and generally fabulous man, drops out of Harvard to make nurturing humanity his eccentric project. He has a phone installed, which he answers "Rosewater Foundation, how can we help you?" He takes out ads across the country suggesting that the suicidal call him instead, and he responds to their needs with both empathy and cash. One satisfied beneficiary of Mr. Rosewater asked him to baptize her twins:
“I told her that I wasn’t a religious person by any stretch of the imagination.  I told her nothing I did would count in Heaven, but she insisted just the same" said Mr. Rosewater. 
“What will you say?  What will you do?"…
“Go over to her shack, I guess.  Sprinkle some water on the babies, say, ‘Hello, babies.  Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-- god damn it, you've got to be kind."
​Approximately 9" x 12" 
Can be trimmed to approx 8" x 10"
Comes in
Thistle (purple)
Russian green
Tangerine (orange)
Daisy (yellow)
Hand-mixed Cranfield Safewash Ink
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  • Home
  • About
  • Clay
    • Broccoli slices
    • Bread and eggs
    • Soup for my family
    • Mussel necklace
    • Swirled french toast
  • Prints
    • Wild geese sticker
    • Hello babies, welcome to Earth
    • Poem on my fortieth
    • All hail snail mail
    • Contempt for poverty is violence
    • Every bombed village
    • Fight without hope, but fight absolutely
    • Cuntgratulations on your surgery
    • For the Tenth Grade Me Reading Howl Right Now
    • The function of a poet
    • I'm here for all the grief that I can stand
    • Stay alive, freak
    • Tomorrow is a Palestinian day
    • You Cannot kill me
    • You have to act...
  • Writing
    • For the Tenth Grade Me Reading Howl Right Now
    • 7:17
    • when you are sad
    • Grief
    • Reunion
    • Metamorphoses
    • and so
    • Four cancer poems >
      • Shadow
      • More Than One Way To Kill a Cat
      • A Secret I've Said Three Times And Still Feel I have Never Told
      • Riley Road
  • Shop