Coming To Term
COMING TO TERM IN THE USA 2022 Laraine Kentridge Lasdon
who are we to talk of women’s rights
or the travesties of cultures of bans
when our Supreme court becomes
a pawn of pandering politics
and we are no better than
them
how many two year olds
must be beaten
left in closets to die
with no Hail Mary’s
to mark their death
twenty year old mother
nineteen year old boyfriend
sit in jail for the rest of their lives
foster children
sleep in offices, under tables
unwanted
and
and
with wanton abandon
the powerful use
every tool they have
to silence sober practitioners
of abortion and education
forcing birth and poverty
on young women pregnant
rape, incest, or ignorant
about their own body
father-father, boyfriend-father
unaware, or not required to care
(as my father-father willfully
controlled me the injustice stings)
wrapped in judicial cloak of cynicism
the Court decamps
intoning platitudes
and buries Roe vs Wade
there is nowhere to turn
the baby is still born
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