My little sister asks me,
"Did you hear they're trying
to take our birth control away?"

I think about indictments,
of bible-thumping pharmacists,
of protestors and screams.

I think about how I don't know
if our insurance even covers BC.

I think about how I just might die
if they don't kill me
and what might be...

Further reading for “Yes, I’ve Heard:”  https://nwlc.org/issue/birth-control/

Juliette Sebock is a Best of the Net-nominated poet and writer and the author of Mistakes Were Made, Micro, How My Cat Saved My Life and Other Poems, Three Words, Plight of the Pangolin, and Boleyn, with work forthcoming or appearing in a wide variety of publications. She is the founding editor of Nightingale & Sparrow, runs a lifestyle blog, For the Sake of Good Taste, and is a regular contributor with Marías at Sampaguitas, Royal Rose, Memoir Mixtapes, and The Poetry Question. When she isn’t writing (and sometimes when she is), she can be found with a cup of coffee and her cat, Fitz. Juliette can be reached on her website, juliettesebock.com, or across social media @juliettesebock.