All I Want Is for Congress to Stay Out of My Uterus

from Spit Fire (Reading at the Hill-Stead Museum) by Julia Alexander

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You were born with an umbilical cord
wrapped tightly around your neck
right on top of the graves of our fathers.
Your first gasp of air smelled like
death and roses,
overwhelmingly sweet,
undeniably bitter.
But after all these years you still
hold your breath when we take
a moment of silence for all of
your wasted potential.
You savor that regret as if
it were the tide.
You let it crash over you
again and again.
It’s about time you opened
up your lungs to the salty air.
Now you have to let the pain of
all we’ve done
seep into your every pore,
and it hurts, and you’ll choke,
but you’ll know it’s the
right thing.
You’ll know we did the right thing.

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from Spit Fire (Reading at the Hill-Stead Museum), released April 19, 2013

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I'm a part time poet and a full time cry baby. If you get too close to me, I'll write a really emotionally confusing poem about you. It'll be exhausting for both of us.

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