We Women
By Bee
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We walk out and are
wheeled back in again on trollies.
On proper beds, we already feel sorry
for the new girls on the ward
awaiting their turn
because we know what's coming.
But morphed off our heads, we soon
forget the initial pain of suffering -
like having given birth - can only vaguely
recall how bloody awful it was...
Later that day, or the next, or the next,
we walk out of the short-stay place, shocked
tit-less - we women on a reduction line,
praying it's over with.
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My heart goes out to you Bee
My heart goes out to you Bee and all those women who go through the same thing.
Take care.
Jenny. xxx
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Heart-rending, dear Bee.
Heart-rending, dear Bee.
Especially poignant your play on words (i.e. reduction) in the penultimate line.
Tina x
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I hope it's over with for
I hope it's over with for you now xxx
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Bee,
Bee,
I can only guess at your pain and your new body if I can call it that, will take some getting used to but with all that you have already had to deal with, I think your courage will once again see you through. So, I will just try to convey how your poem struck me. I think your use of the word 'morphed' has been carefully chosen in that perhaps you feel you are a different person; you have morphed into someone different. I also think 'We women on a reduction line' is suggestive of a conveyor belt and that you feel you are being processed. Just how it struck me. Probably got the wrong end of the stick.
In my thoughts,
Moya x
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The collective "we" and the
The collective "we" and the turfed out, women in to the world, after such an ordeal is written so casually and more powerful for it.
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'We walk out of the short
'We walk out of the short stay place'
'titless'
So poignantly written Bee. Heartbreaking - all those unseen women on a horrendous conveyor belt. Well done to you for being so brave to shine a light on this x
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women on a reduction line.
women on a reduction line. Like the wit. [short-stay] hyphen
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