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Choices
She wanted
you to know
the pill didn't work
or she wouldn't
be at this clinic;
in the middle of
this controversy.
The protesters
who stood chanting
by the entrance
threw epithets
and rocks to scare her away.
She made it inside
w/only a few
bruises,
but the bomb scare
gives her second thoughts
and the nurses
all look anxious
and the only real
excuse she has for remaining
firmly planted in her chair
is her mother's warning
still echoing in her mind of no
room in the house
for a baby.
Plus she figures
a 16-year-old single mother
w/no diploma is
2 more strikes against.
Adding insult to maiming,
Her ex-boyfriend, the father
might have auto-immune-deficiency-syndrome(AIDS).
Some toss
accusing, cute phrases
like baby-killer,
or murderer of the innocent.
But who was
there when her innocence
was murdered?
When her pristine bubble
of a carefree life was
destroyed, shattered.
And even as
the shouting outside becomes
louder,
she's still unsure.
Decisions,
decisions...
