I wish I were born a mutated farm animal. That way, I'd only be suffered to live one night. In the morning, they’d take me out with a kiss from a rifle. My mother would lack the capacity to understand, in a way only mothers can. So she would do the only thing she knew, care. Care for my siblings, the ones born right. The ambitious, the smart, even the cruel. They would grow strong and be sold. My sisters would have calves, and one day, I would be born again. Or at least the idea of me would be, and she’d remember. My sister would look upon her two-headed calf and remember the starry night on which I was born. Unfortunately for her, she was more than capable of remembering the misty morning I died on. In that moment, my bovine sister wished she were born a fool. Unfortunately for us both, farmhouse wishes don’t come true.