THIRD WORLD AND MANILAMANIC POEMS
SOMETIMES MOTHERS
Sometimes mothers must decide
how to allocate their nurture
chosen children to survive
providing for a future
Sometimes mothers love the child
as they let it succumb
providing only mercies mild
when something could be done
Sometimes mothers choose the one
that men will want for work or war
not the daughter but the son
the one they most adore
Humans now are the result
of allowing mothers to decide
survivors should be slow to fault
family planning infanticide
RECENT ACCUMULATIONS AND APPROPRIATED VOICES, Kalayaan Publications, 1997
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