New Poem: "Roe vs. Wade"

 

Roe vs. Wade

 I’m dying to write a poem,

about what, I honestly don’t know;

it keeps pushing up, and up, and up,

but it won’t break through.

 

What am I to do?

 

I’m dying to write a poem,

and I keep asking myself: what could

it possibly be, that’s pushing so hard

to come into this world?

 

I don’t have a clue.

 

I’m dying to write a poem,

to relieve myself of the anxious feeling

of being pregnant with a new idea;

but I don’t know how to induce

my unborn poem—

 

And I don’t want to abort it!