Mar
7
Choices
Filed Under Poegles, poetry contest
If I Had an Abortion
He said that if I had an abortion we had a future
If we had a baby, then there was no future
I asked him whether he would perform the abortion on me,
he said, “No, thanks,” in an absent way.
I think it made him uncomfortable
to hear the truth about a very real and sick situation
But I’d like to think that if a friend of mine had an abortion
I’d have acted rationally and supportive
I’d like to think that if I had sex with a man
It meant that he would love me
It’s been two years since the abortion
And boy was I wrong
-Margaret in Richmond (search phrase “if i had an abortion”)
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