Babies conceived by woman
alone
no fuss, no sex, no mess, no male.
responsible for it all,
alone.
Keep all women virgins
then, now, forever.
Keep all men out of it
and out of women.
Except, we don’t.
it is all pretend,
a virgin birth
play without end.
“Sacrilege!” some would say.
But I remember Sister Robertine’s words:
“It is a man’s world, but a woman’s heaven.”
Girls suffer to be saints
while men sin.
So easy, then, for men
to decry a woman’s need
to end
the fruits of their sin.
Love supplants virginity,
not sanctity.
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