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Lisa Wujnovich

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Pregnant in an empty grade school 

I need an abortion    up & down & up 

an elevator     I try  to find my novice nun classmates     

ask them what to do    the spinster ogre principal

looks like my mother    with no answers   will they 

get rid of it or will they not?    If it lives 

I still can’t      who would    keep a baby 

from artificial insemination by some random blonde 

brain-damaged-brother-look-a-like     cut it 

away but from where     I don’t know where 

they will slice me     will it be cesarean or abortion 

I barely show    nurse says they don’t perform abortions     

but if I make a trip out of state

a doctor will help me   into rooms of velvet    crusty 

baby cribs & baby paraphernalia    I spray & kill 

roaches around the filthy refrigerator    killing mean girl 

pretends she’s my friend but sabotages me 

behind my back   I don’t want baby here    opened   

pulled out    ridged metal fan belt     double-sided iron spool 

replaced with a plastic white kitchen bag     

but ah-ha inside bright green air filled balloon   fetus dead

Fetus

1. Significs implies a careful distinction between (a) sense or signification, (b) meaning or intention and (c) significance or ideal worth.

her egg   his sperm    cells     fertilized    differentiated    fetus  unborn    embyro    person    

child    baby   choice    terminate killer    abortion   assault   life     consent     

choose     signed     conception   contra        

birth    fetus  control   cells soul cells soul cells soul cells soul cells soul   pregnancy    

unintended    bun in the oven    knocked up    bat in the cave              in the family way   

the rabbit died     in the pudding club    up the duff    with child tin roof rusted    pea in the

pod    eating for two    prego    wearing the bustle wrong stung by a serpent   in pig    fetus      

rapid response test      pee stick       sneak peak           positive negative    first second third

trimester     midterm     full term    

late term abortion   birth defect      feticide rape incest      father brother uncle neighbor

best friend husband boss     coercion   sex sex sex sex sex sex sex       accident    

teenaged   plan b    implant   the pill    condom     diaphragm   

tubal ligation    fixed   vasectomy     rhythm   mistake    labor   birth     born  dead    

stillborn       depression       chemical endangerment of a fetus      lies lives lies lives lies

lives lies lives lies lies lies lies    depraved heart murder    miscarriage      delivery of a

controlled fetus    manslaughter   coat hangers   Lysol    hemorrhage   toilet bowl   

ambulance     second degree murder    terminated    

reckless injury of a fetus       conceding a death   abuse of a corpse    

neglect of a minor    attempted procurement of a miscarriage   reckless homicide     states

and federal fetal homicide laws    doctors      attorneys   prisons   insurance

abortion health providers   parenthood      planned        harassed    murdered

Supreme Court leaked   state zygote   fetal    fatal