Episode 01: Welcome to the Squeeze

(Immersive Verses series)

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The other day I read a feminist’s sign that said…

“I hate it here” Hear me!

Appeared she was walking with others in a pro-choice [direction]

Rallying [retaliating] against the forced birth [precedent]

reality she’d evidently fallen in.

A situ like an inescapable umbilical cord

Wound round her throat and tight right from her very girl start.

Seems to be constricting her rights, suffocating her heart.

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They say on the way into this world

You’re pushed through an opening, a tight squeeze

Through and out into a white room, a new realm

Where someone is telling someone else

To bear down, to push or to squeeze. ...