Life and Death Rights

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Thanks to Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States, for this bipolar political concept.

Liberal lovers
claim maternal rights 
to reproductive powers of yes and no,
maybe and not yet lives.

While conservative haters
demand paternalistic rights
to purchase and bear deproductive automated powers of terminal wrong,
terrorizingly maybe and not yet deaths.

If this is our only viable choice,
between being a socialist
and being an anti-socialist,
a sociopath,
between being a lover
or a hater,
between acting with future regenerative hope
or degenerative malice,
then, for those committed to a healthy energy democracy,
for those constitutionally invested in prosperous well-being,
we can take no uncivil rest
until everyone freely chooses organic and fair communion
over deadly automated commerce,
narcissism,
cynicism,
greed,
fear and anger building hate,
absence of both natural and spiritual integrity. 

I would not think
we would need a PhD in health care
environmental science
or divine arts and crafts
to see which leans closer 
to full-score democratic resilience,
maybe and not yet quite polypathic resonance.

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