Doctor Grandma

I miss Ruth Ginsburg,

want her to return,

take this nightmare of a freak show away.

Let’s go out for coffee,

talk about old times,

like the winning of Roe v Wade,

like how women have fought for every right they have,

and may not have tomorrow,

like their educations,

or like voting,

or entering a library on their own,

or having babies in the way they want to,

or the right to live alone,

Let’s talk about doctors who told me not

to breastfeed for too long,

or told my mother to take the drugs

so she didn’t know

when her babies were born,

Let’s talk about slithering snakes,

about comments made by politicians

how women don’t get pregnant from rape

or like how they really enjoy it.

Because I’ve had just about enough of this.

I want to look forward, not back,

and I don’t know how much energy I have left

for another fighting round.

cfblack, 10-15-2020

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