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A brother laments the potential terminal outcome..


of what could become metastatic cancer diagnosis
his eldest sister afflicted just like clockwork orange,
a misogynistic mailer daemon bares heinous grinch
like smirk and presents baby boom generation viz
hitting a loving sibling (absent any rivalry) more so
like a pseudo mother (though only thirteen months
and twelve days older than me), she looked out for
my welfare when big bad-a$$ bullies tore into me
verbally (where sticks and stones break bones and
words hurt) analogous to being pilloried back when
being stoned a form of ostracization, particularly to
women accused of any number of arbitrary miz dum
meaner, whereat the males exempt even though they
happened to be complicit such as the case of adultery
where woman becomes gravid with child, possibly
due to the aggressive (and frequently more powerful)
displays of force leaving the female at abusive control
of an unyielding man in throes of hormonal secretions
wild with atavistic predilections to forcibly subdue any
protestations even after the dirty deed done dirt cheap
trickily leaves little or no recourse for the besmirched
vestal virgin to endure humiliation with little or no rip
reave to escape accusations of a strumpet, thus forced
measure for measure forever driving Miss Daisy along
the boulevard of broken dreams and sullied prospects
even being turned away from the Sisters of Perpetual
Responsibility leaving no recourse for once chaste gal
hounded and chased out of a formerly accommodating
community, albeit patriarchal society walled in courtesy
imponderable and insurmountable strictures until recent
times when equal rights allowed, enabled and provided
long overdue oblations and obligations for free and clear
representation until on June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme
Court overturned Roe versus Wade (1973) in Dobbs vs
Jackson Women's Health Organization, ruling that the
Constitution does not confer a federal right to abortion
forcing unwanted pregnancies, and/or aborted fetuses
to suffer unfair penalizes or imprisoning while the man
gets off scott free inflicting criminal record on an lawful
wise upstanding woman, whose extra mouth to buzzfeed
forces unlucky lady to labor eight days a week until the
daughter or son attends school (possibly becomes truant)
since little or no bedrock of Gibraltar anchors an unjust
situation (played out across thee lowest economic strata)
unless offspring motivated and/or A Gifted Individualized
Education Plan offered (as happened to be the case with
our eldest, whose smarts helped to extricate her from an
untenable domestic situation, where neither yours truly the
father (me), nor mother (the latter currently in deep sleep
after playing and drumming the rhythm of a tune on tummy
of mine finally understood the subtle hint, that her hubby
lacked the ambition or enthusiasm to avail his body electric
(where once he sported a six pack abdomen, now ab turned
to flab with quite a handful of adipose tissue to grab) linkedin
sedentary lifestyle, where leisure hours (constituting better
part of his day, since he receives social security disability to
fend off bill collectors) usually consigned to writing poetry
or reading (sometimes feeling extremely exhausted courtesy
just barely able to keep one step ahead of ever increasing costs
of living, thus hoping for supplemental income vis a vis his
writing, which does tend to stray off an initial main theme but
lets himself type extemporaneously) where end result far from
initial premise as happened in this case with care and concern
for his "big" sister (who actually lost a few inches linkedin to
moderate scoliosis and worrisome low bone density as shown
by a recent dexa scan), thus now he circles back and reminds
himself and reader how thoughts of alarm bells figuratively
deafeningly clang (only heard within his own psyche) distract

any semblance for peace of mind to prevail until death do me
part, which at long last brings this long winded sentence to
a close.

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