“Reproductive health”
Yet for the baby it’s death
Your choice: “health” or death
Gary Edward Geraci
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Gary Edward Geraci (
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- Comment from author about the poem: The truth in language matters. Regarding abortion as a reproductive health choice - the irony of the lie is in the last line of my Haiku: regardless the choice, the outcome is the same.
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I am reproducing below my Haiku, maybe responds well to this, though not euphemistic
Mourning of ones birth
Birth being beginning of death
Celebrating death
Suresh- at least you grant the protagonist in your Haiku the opportunity to mourn it’s human life cycle. Is your second line verging on 8 syllables? Depends on how you pronounce “being” I suppose. Certain cultures here in the USA would certainly articulate it in one syllable: “beeeen”. Thank you for your perspective and poem.
I can see the (Roman?) Catholic side of this. Protestant would agree - or me anyway, at least 95% of the time. Difficult if the person will be borne severely disabled, etc, yet still a person.
Meanwhile - a lighter vein - I gotta find out what a euphemism is exactly, so I dunno if I'm lying with it, or what? Is it summat I can cook up for Sunday lunch?Am I uneducated?! I will go back to sleep - or back to the dictionary. lol.
I appreciate your thoughts and considerations Orchidee.
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