Egg on the beach

The doctor showed me gray lullabies on the screen, and in the middle of them was a simple outline of my little one shaking his head in a sarcastic way. I hear his heartbeat: "boom, boom, boom," multiplied perhaps thousands of times, as the pulse moves in a phosphorescent zigzag line to the end of the screen and then fades away as a small, barely perceptible wave. We waited a long time for him. We ...