The Contraception of Me

Time turns on a knitting needle.
It practices the rhythm system
(day in, day out, day in, day out)
(day in, day out)
(day in)
(day out)
Except on dangerous days
(day maybe?)
When it practices abstinence.
Some days I might be born
(Not today!)
Those days I become an abortion.

Sometimes it almost kills me.

9-18-72

 

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