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Choices

Green plastic army men

Barbie plays with Ken

Drafted are the boys to men

Someone’s started a fight

The girls can choose to abort

Politicians say they have that right

Choose to prostitute then they will prosecute

Pro-choice is not the right to choose

Only the right to a choice

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Poetry   political

â—„ A walk in the garden with Juliet (How many Romeos have you killed?)

Abandoned children â–º

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Tue 20th Feb 2018 15:00

The inspiration for this comes from thinking about a world where human reproduction is (at certain levels) perversion and violence towards humans is entertainment (at certain levels). We guard or daughters from being sexually exploited while we place our young boys in front of violent video games and inspire them to war, as if death or mutilation is not as bad as sexual exploitation.

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