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Maggie O'Byrne Poetry

Separated
To discuss
Unmentionable business
So we are told
 
As if in hushed
Knitting circles
How to get blood
Out of cotton
Little pills and t-shaped things
What happens when they fail
#metoo
But what now
 
We are educated
Now
Unlike our mothers
And grandmothers
Who were forced to rely
On old wives’tails
 
And yet
We cloister ourselves
Slightly ashamed
Mildly angry
Like penguins
Protecting their burdens
For a bitter world
 
Maybe because here
We are free
Maybe because
Out there
We
Are still
Taboo

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