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| # MayVaneDay ASS (https://tilde.town/~dzwdz/ass/) feed | ||||
| 
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| 2023-04-11	https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/a/abortion1.txt	Abortion I | ||||
| 2023-04-05	https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/h/hutch_of_were.txt	Hutch of Were | ||||
| 2023-04-02	https://mayvaneday.org/poetry/a/agloe.txt	Agloe | ||||
| 2023-04-01	https://mayvaneday.org/blog/2023/april/LiveUSB.html	I spent a week using Tails as my only operating system | ||||
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| Abortion I | ||||
| 2023-04-11 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| *** | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| I went my entire education | ||||
| without being handed a box | ||||
| with plastic fetuses in row, | ||||
| each one with more time to grow | ||||
| before being aborted | ||||
| and potential life snuffed out, | ||||
| deemed nobody's loss. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Now I know the lesson was fake, | ||||
| that far more time it takes | ||||
| to grow to that kind of size, | ||||
| that at that early of a stage | ||||
| it's dubious they feel that pain. | ||||
| (You have no right | ||||
| to force me to provide | ||||
| for you with my body against my will.) | ||||
| Barely aware of being alive, | ||||
| much less the difference | ||||
| between the light | ||||
| of consciousness | ||||
| and the dark that came before. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| A lima bean Dad did abort. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Buried it with his two hands. | ||||
| With two hands, the dirt he ferried | ||||
| from backyard, wiped on his pants, | ||||
| powder, mud, dust, root, clump. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| "Your time in the womb is up. | ||||
| A promise that come a decade | ||||
| I so hastily made | ||||
| not thinking of the future | ||||
| I must now with no regrets break. | ||||
| Dissolved the ties with pop of pill | ||||
| so that no blood must my hands spill. | ||||
| The damage to you is only collateral. | ||||
| The benefits are all addressed to me." | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Bury my heart | ||||
| in the backyard, | ||||
| leave it behind | ||||
| in the move to different sky. | ||||
| It still beats. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| It still beats. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| It still beats. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| It still beats, Dad, did you know? | ||||
| Far away where my feet | ||||
| no longer legally can go. | ||||
| I was so young, only sixteen, | ||||
| at the start of my journey, | ||||
| without warning come | ||||
| to an ending abrupt. | ||||
| The story that is written | ||||
| without thought | ||||
| of plot | ||||
| or pacing | ||||
| and only one character half-fleshed out, you her effacing. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| I can only wonder | ||||
| into what I would have grown | ||||
| if this hadn't happened, | ||||
| if you'd just left me alone. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| *** | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander | ||||
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| => a/algingu.txt	Algingu | ||||
| => a/aria_houndz_it.txt	Aria Houndz It | ||||
| => a/agloe.txt	Agloe | ||||
| => a/abortion1.txt	Abortion I | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| ## B | ||||
| => b/better-version.txt	Better Version | ||||
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| 0Algingu	a/algingu.txt | ||||
| 0Aria Houndz It	a/aria_houndz_it.txt | ||||
| 0Agloe	a/agloe.txt | ||||
| 0Abortion I	a/abortion1.txt | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| iB	 | ||||
| 0Birdgazing	b/birdgazing.txt | ||||
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| 	<a href=".">.</a><br> | ||||
| 	├── <a href="./a/">a</a><br> | ||||
| 	│   ├── <a href="./a/a-birthday-every-day.txt">a-birthday-every-day.txt</a><br> | ||||
| 	│   ├── <a href="./a/abortion1.txt">abortion1.txt</a><br> | ||||
| 	│   ├── <a href="./a/access.txt">access.txt</a><br> | ||||
| 	│   ├── <a href="./a/agloe.txt">agloe.txt</a><br> | ||||
| 	│   ├── <a href="./a/airborne.txt">airborne.txt</a><br> | ||||
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| 	</p> | ||||
| 	<p> | ||||
| 
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| 24 directories, 152 files | ||||
| 24 directories, 153 files | ||||
| 	<br><br> | ||||
| 	</p> | ||||
| 	<hr> | ||||
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| 
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| Unfinished, obviously. | ||||
| 
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| Last updated: 2023-04-05 | ||||
| Last updated: 2023-04-11 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| ## Art | ||||
| - [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing | ||||
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| - [Claudette Colvin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin): pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement; efused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks did | ||||
| - [Temple Grandin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin): one of the first public figures to publically come out as Autistic; animal welfare activist that campaigned for humane treatment of cattle in beef processing plants | ||||
| - [Judith Heumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Heumann): held the longest sit-in in a government building for the enactment of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (civil rights protection for disabled people) | ||||
| - [Elizabeth Peratrovich](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peratrovich?lang=en): instrumental in the passing of the USA's first anti-discrimination law | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| ## Misc | ||||
| - [Marie Van Brittan Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown): co-invented home security surveillance | ||||
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