Miscarriage
Joe Hammond 1961 (San Diego)
Miscarriage
For me
The miscarriage
Was of justice
When you and
The lawyer stole
My inheritance
You leveraged
The ultimate
F*ck you
In a long
Series of them
While you prepared strategically
For another man
Another life
At the end of the love chain
But still without
A daughter
For you
The miscarriage was life
Viscerally conceived
And taken
I stole the last chance
From us
There at the close
Of the birth control wars
You went home
To mother
The week of
The unilateral vasectomy
From then on
We both shot blanks
In countless
Other wars
Though we were already dead
To one another
While time compounded
Your interest
You waited impatiently
For my mother
To die
Lest she suspect
Then I learned
The hard way
From a cadre of crones
Cashing in
It would cost me a third
Of a million dollars
And 25 years
To raise a child
Even the one
You couldn’t carry
But still do
About this poem
About a failed marriage and varied perspectives on what constitutes trauma.
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Written on March 16, 2024
Submitted by gojoehammond on March 16, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 891 |
Words | 192 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 1 |
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