New poem: Abortion I
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# MayVaneDay ASS (https://tilde.town/~dzwdz/ass/) feed
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2023-04-11 https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/a/abortion1.txt Abortion I
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2023-04-05 https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/h/hutch_of_were.txt Hutch of Were
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2023-04-02 https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/a/agloe.txt Agloe
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2023-04-01 https://mayvaneday.org/blog/2023/april/LiveUSB.html I spent a week using Tails as my only operating system
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Abortion I
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2023-04-11
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***
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I went my entire education
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without being handed a box
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with plastic fetuses in row,
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each one with more time to grow
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before being aborted
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and potential life snuffed out,
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deemed nobody's loss.
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Now I know the lesson was fake,
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that far more time it takes
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to grow to that kind of size,
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that at that early of a stage
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it's dubious they feel that pain.
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(You have no right
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to force me to provide
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for you with my body against my will.)
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Barely aware of being alive,
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much less the difference
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between the light
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of consciousness
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and the dark that came before.
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A lima bean Dad did abort.
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Buried it with his two hands.
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With two hands, the dirt he ferried
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from backyard, wiped on his pants,
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powder, mud, dust, root, clump.
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"Your time in the womb is up.
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A promise that come a decade
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I so hastily made
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not thinking of the future
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I must now with no regrets break.
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Dissolved the ties with pop of pill
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so that no blood must my hands spill.
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The damage to you is only collateral.
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The benefits are all addressed to me."
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Bury my heart
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in the backyard,
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leave it behind
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in the move to different sky.
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It still beats.
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It still beats.
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It still beats.
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It still beats, Dad, did you know?
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Far away where my feet
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no longer legally can go.
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I was so young, only sixteen,
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at the start of my journey,
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without warning come
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to an ending abrupt.
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The story that is written
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without thought
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of plot
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or pacing
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and only one character half-fleshed out, you her effacing.
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I can only wonder
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into what I would have grown
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if this hadn't happened,
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if you'd just left me alone.
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***
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander
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=> a/algingu.txt Algingu
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=> a/aria_houndz_it.txt Aria Houndz It
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=> a/agloe.txt Agloe
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=> a/abortion1.txt Abortion I
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## B
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=> b/better-version.txt Better Version
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0Algingu a/algingu.txt
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0Aria Houndz It a/aria_houndz_it.txt
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0Agloe a/agloe.txt
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0Abortion I a/abortion1.txt
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iB
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0Birdgazing b/birdgazing.txt
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<a href=".">.</a><br>
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├── <a href="./a/">a</a><br>
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│ ├── <a href="./a/a-birthday-every-day.txt">a-birthday-every-day.txt</a><br>
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│ ├── <a href="./a/abortion1.txt">abortion1.txt</a><br>
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│ ├── <a href="./a/access.txt">access.txt</a><br>
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│ ├── <a href="./a/agloe.txt">agloe.txt</a><br>
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│ ├── <a href="./a/airborne.txt">airborne.txt</a><br>
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</p>
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<p>
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24 directories, 152 files
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24 directories, 153 files
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<br><br>
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</p>
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Unfinished, obviously.
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Last updated: 2023-04-05
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Last updated: 2023-04-11
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## Art
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- [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
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- [Claudette Colvin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin): pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement; efused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks did
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- [Temple Grandin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin): one of the first public figures to publically come out as Autistic; animal welfare activist that campaigned for humane treatment of cattle in beef processing plants
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- [Judith Heumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Heumann): held the longest sit-in in a government building for the enactment of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (civil rights protection for disabled people)
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- [Elizabeth Peratrovich](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peratrovich?lang=en): instrumental in the passing of the USA's first anti-discrimination law
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## Misc
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- [Marie Van Brittan Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown): co-invented home security surveillance
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