Embryos are People”
People—embryos are people,
The unlikeliest people in the world,
They’re children,
Just like other children,
Although, once they were set aside,
Now Alabama’s pride,
Makes them more like children than children.
Judges are very special people,
Their decisions can agitate the world.
With one ruling,
One very special ruling,
A judge says it is his role,
To save an embryo’s soul:
In a judicial first,
Reversed the notion they’re not people,
Embryos are people:
The unlikeliest people in the world.
About this poem
A parody lyric derived from the song “People” [Jule Styne, music; Bob Merrill, lyrics; from their 1964 Broadway musical Funny Girl]
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Submitted by ditty-0.dower on February 25, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | aBccddc abeeffxa aB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 98 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 2 |
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