Wright Park March 11, 2018

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Brooker Creek March 11, 2018

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choose choice

I see a group of men with their anti-choice signs

Waiting to shout at any woman who may come

To seek care at the nearby Bread and Roses clinic

Trying to coerce her to have an unwanted child.

I think about going over to shout at these angry men

Menacing women as another form of sexual harassment

About a woman’s right to choose to give birth or not

Though they think that God is on their side.

There can be no time limit to saying no

The right to reject unwanted sexual advances

Goes hand in hand with control over your uterus

And the right to terminate unwanted pregnancy.

Why do men want women bearing children against their will?

I do not understand and I am a man myself

Perhaps because I have no sympathy for these intimidators

Who would force a woman to obey their command.

These are the hypocrites who cite the commandment

Even as they clamor for the death penalty executions

These moralistic men who salute the sanctioned killing in wars

Dehumanizing the civilians who die as "collateral damage."

Female choice tends to select men who cooperate

Leading evolution along a path to a peaceful world

Where everyone and everything has a right to exist

Requiring mutual consent to engender new life.

When human pleasure is valued for both men and women

Sexual relations enhance equality in relationships

Begetting children who are all part of the collective family

With the community caring about each and every one of them.

Dunedin March 10, 2018

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