Planned Parenthood

The unshaven man in front
of the clinic who smells of neglect
and looks belligerent, as though
he always has to have a cause
to make him visible, now
holds up the picture of a bleeding fetus,

declaring his one power to participate
in creation, no matter on what terms,
that power, he feels, is now
as he accosts the young woman
who has been raped already
in so many other ways.

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