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A Ballad to the Ladies (and Their Wives, Husbands and Boyfriends) Relative to This Upcoming Major Election
To the ladies who follow my muse
I know you’re all up on the news
So I’m sure you’re all wise
That the GOP guys
Are coming for your right to choose
Each Right-Wing Republican boy
Thinks they can win with this ploy
And each “values” vote
Will jump on the float
It’s the issue of their hoi polloi
Whichever side you may take
The issue is your right to make
This personal choice
Have the right to your voice
Instead of some law you might break
Incest or rape? – doesn’t matter
Or family torn to a tatter
You must bring to term
Your own father’s sperm
(These loons put the “mad” in Mad Hatter)
These people espouse this profanity
And call it the true Christianity
The only thing true
Is they’re coming for you
With this stubborn perversion of sanity
If any of you with a brain
Votes for an R you’re insane
One word you all should
Know is “personhood”
Their amendment sends your rights down the drain
And these zealots hate Planned Parenthood
They’d destroy it today if they could
You vote in these bums
Planned Parenthood’s done
‘N more abandoned kids the likelihood
Though some of you may be conflicted
‘Cause you like Donald Trump don’t be tricked it
Means you have to go
Against what you know
‘Cause his party wants your rights restricted
So sisters, moms, daughters beware
Your rights and their cant do not square
And your deep need to be
Equal and free
Hangs by their whim and their prayer
With any luck what we’ll “end” is The Republican Party.
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Filed under: Cautionary tale, commentary, Poem, writing Tagged: Planned Parenthood, religious right, Republicans, women’s right to choose 
Barking in the Dark is run by Tony Powers, a writer/actor/musician.
Source: https://barkinginthedark.com/2016/05/14/a-ballad-to-the-ladies-and-their-wives-husbands-and-boyfriends-relative-to-this-upcoming-major-election/
