diff --git a/feed.ass b/feed.ass index 94ca662..0168608 100755 --- a/feed.ass +++ b/feed.ass @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ # MayVaneDay ASS (https://tilde.town/~dzwdz/ass/) feed +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 diff --git a/poetry/a/abortion1.txt b/poetry/a/abortion1.txt new file mode 100755 index 0000000..b7e3469 --- /dev/null +++ b/poetry/a/abortion1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +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 diff --git a/poetry/index.gmi b/poetry/index.gmi index 4149461..669bfdc 100755 --- a/poetry/index.gmi +++ b/poetry/index.gmi @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ => 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 diff --git a/poetry/index.gph b/poetry/index.gph index 2882d34..a0934c9 100755 --- a/poetry/index.gph +++ b/poetry/index.gph @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ iA 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 diff --git a/poetry/index.html b/poetry/index.html index 0e70183..30b144e 100755 --- a/poetry/index.html +++ b/poetry/index.html @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ .
├── a
│   ├── a-birthday-every-day.txt
+ │   ├── abortion1.txt
│   ├── access.txt
│   ├── agloe.txt
│   ├── airborne.txt
@@ -209,7 +210,7 @@

-24 directories, 152 files +24 directories, 153 files


diff --git a/women.md b/women.md index b6f981a..97db695 100755 --- a/women.md +++ b/women.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Unfinished, obviously. -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 @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ Last updated: 2023-04-05 - [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