Roe v Wade-related
they want to force us
against our collective will,
insisting it is for the
greater good;
it is an excuse that hinges
on ignorance
because the greater good benefits
so few that is never worth it—
i tire of those who would
strip a woman of a power or her worth,
they would strip her of her magic and her
bodily autonomy rather than admit
they’re wrong;
and they want to view us as property
or broodmares and incubators
never as people—
they act as if those who get abortions aren’t those
whom we know,
as if they’re faceless villains that deserve
to be stoned to death;
but if they read the text they claim as theirs then they
would see that love is the choice they’re to be making
not hate, judgment, or rage.
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Linda M. Crate’s poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has six published chapbooks A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press – June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon – January 2014), If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, August 2016), My Wings Were Made to Fly (Flutter Press, September 2017), splintered with terror (Scars Publications, January 2018), more than bone music (Clare Songbirds Publishing, March 2019), and one micro-chapbook Heaven Instead (Origami Poems Project, May 2018). She is also the author of the novel Phoenix Tears (Czykmate Books, June 2018).
