A Womb With a View
"The impossibility of obtaining a blastula's consent to be bred and birthed does not make the problem vanish."
-- Rational Ethics 101 for expectant mommies
monocratic
* * *
I full refuse to born be unto ceaseless horrors vast
upon some rock on which a baby each five seconds dies,
especially my having not been once politely asked,
so here shall I hole up between these huge, spread-eagle thighs --
despite some bully pushing me with neither my consent
nor any guarantee to dying slow in pain prevent.
* * *
a dedication of Respect
for
the Pain of bullied delivery-room victims
a revolving helios rhyme menippean satire on
the romanticized notion of
unconditional love
february, 2023 -- yet no such concept as "safe" on
bugaboo planet
Copyright © James Starkey Iii | Year Posted 2023
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