{"id":8880,"date":"2014-01-20T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2014-01-20T08:21:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:21:21","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-childhood-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-childhood-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: CHILDHOOD MEMORY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Childhood<\/a><\/p>\n

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHILDHOOD MEMORY
\n\u201cI once had a daughter or son.
\nTo this day, I don\u2019t know which one.
\nI later was wed.
\nStill, my first child is dead.
\nPlease forgive me for what I have done.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the archive:<\/em><\/p>\n

MARCH
\nNo, their numbers are never reported
\n(If they were, they\u2019d be greatly distorted),
\nBut this year in the throng,
\nFifty million-plus strong,
\nAre the souls of the children aborted.
\n(2013)<\/p>\n

POSTNATAL ABORTION
\nOh, the wailing could hardly be shriller
\nFor the fallen abortionist Tiller:
\nHow those pro-choicers burn
\nWith such tender concern
\nFor an infamous serial killer!
\n(2009)<\/p>\n

NO BIG DEAL
\nWhy feel sorry for the slain
\nWhile you\u2019re sucking out his brain,
\nTearing off of him
\nEvery little limb,
\nIf he cannot feel real pain?
\n(2005)<\/p>\n

DOA
\n\u201cShall I never see the morn?
\nHear a rattle, bell, or horn?
\nOr taste the air?
\nOr touch your hair?
\nMust I die before I\u2019m born?\u201d
\n(2005)<\/p>\n

MOTHER\u2019S DAZE
\n\u201cIn confusion I resorted
\nTo the \u2018choice\u2019 that was exhorted;
\nNow every day
\nI cry and pray
\nFor the baby I aborted.\u201d
\n(2003)<\/p>\n

LOST ON EARTH
\nWe\u2019re so eager to find a trace
\nOf the least little life in space,
\nBut here on Earth
\nWe bar the birth
\nOf lives we could embrace.
\n(2001)<\/p>\n

CHOICE POSITION
\nDon\u2019t be fooled by the \u201cpro-choice\u201d ruse
\nThat amoralists use to confuse,
\nFor your choices could
\nBe bad or good
\nAnd it matters how you choose.
\n(2001)<\/p>\n

LEGAL ISSUE
\nFive Justices\u2019 wanton support
\nPreserves the grim \u201cright\u201d to abort:
\nTo keep babies alive,
\nReplace one of those five
\nAnd establish a life-choosing Court.
\n(2000)<\/p>\n

TERRIFIED TISSUE
\n\u201cOh, Mama, don\u2019t let that thing get me!
\nOh, Mama, you\u2019ve not even met me!
\nOh, Mama, please give
\nMe a lifetime to live!
\nOh, Mama, you\u2019d never regret me!\u201d
\n(2000)<\/p>\n

Last week’s limerick:<\/em><\/p>\n

HANDICAP
\nHe\u2019s again at the club, is he nuts?
\nHe\u2019s no athlete, the man is a klutz.
\nAll this time on the green,
\nIt\u2019s becoming obscene:
\nHe should mind something else than his putts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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