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A Letter To The Six Grim Reapers of the Supreme Court

a poem to the Supreme Court Justices rolling back women's rights

By CD TurnerPublished 10 days ago 1 min read

This is a letter

To the six Grim Reapers of the Supreme Court:

You know who you are

And we know who you support.

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You turned America back 50 years

And you plan to go farther.

Y'all are getting vacations and expensive gifts,

While Americans are told to work harder.

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You signed on the dotted line

With the blood of the women doomed to die

Due to your goddamn crusader agenda

Insisting that it's all pro-life.

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I'll paint a picture

Of what America will be like decades from now

If tyrants like you

Are allowed to stick around:

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Children will be born to women

Who can't take care of them.

The foster system will overflow

And kids will be abandoned.

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It will become a common sight

To see babies in garbage bins

And in boxes left outside hospitals

And firehouses and police stations.

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More women will die

From back-alley botched abortions.

They'll die from ectopic pregnancies

And toxic shock infections.

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Schools will be overtaxed

With the huge amount of children.

Too many kids, not enough love -

That'll be the next epidemic.

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Child abuse will be rampant

With not enough social workers to handle it

Neurodivergent kids will be pushed aside

And ostracized as delinquents.

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This has happened before

And it'll happen again.

Ever heard of the 1989 revolution

From the fed-up Romanians?

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When Nicolae Ceausescu was president,

He enacted a decree,

Making abortion and birth control illegal,

Stressing importance of the nuclear family.

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The children born of the decree

Grew up to see hardship and oppression of their parents

They rose up in rebellion against Ceausescu

And overthrew the Romanian government.

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Just think about that

When you're signing our rights away.

The children you're forcing into the world

Could topple your empire one day.

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CD Turner

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