What They Want of Us (Certain Lawmakers)
by Jason Limberg
What they want of us (Certain Lawmakers)
To reproduce like rabbits.
No, just to be rabbits, pussy soft hares,
mute and cute.
To just shut up and hop to it;
mute and cute.
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Thinking of current assaults on Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood in the U.S. (and on women’s rights generally). For Kerry’s prompt on Real Toads; the pic is a wonderful ink drawing by Jason Limberg. .The views expressed here are stricttly my own and have no connection to Jason.
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ManicDDaily 
April 6, 2019 at 6:08 pm
oh wow – most scathing and excellent word play Karin !
tight and powerful is the leap of imagination –
Brava!
April 6, 2019 at 7:20 pm
I like this, K. Too, the “mute and cute” repeat.
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April 6, 2019 at 8:26 pm
An interesting play on words and the picture.
April 6, 2019 at 8:36 pm
Well said!
(And fewer and fewer of us are inclined to please them.)
April 6, 2019 at 8:59 pm
Oh, they wish we would keep quiet! But hear us roar! I cant believe they are trying to roll back rights fought for so long and hard. How quickly they could send us back to 1950.
April 7, 2019 at 1:32 am
Exactly! But not all of us would be mute and play along 😉
April 7, 2019 at 2:51 am
I love how you used the prompt to make a bold and needful statement about the way the world is turning – forever dragging women back to the status of bunny girl.
April 7, 2019 at 9:41 am
OMG YES
April 7, 2019 at 3:59 pm
I will not stay mute. Great poem, K.
April 8, 2019 at 11:07 am
Perfection in your Succinctness.
April 8, 2019 at 4:39 pm
Well, we have different political views, but you used this to your advantage and effectively. 🙂
April 11, 2019 at 11:21 am
!!