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