Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Great Regulars: The speaker states bluntly, "Abortions

will not let you forget." She claims that the mother who has aborted will "remember the children" that they conceived but "did not get," that is, allow to be born. She describes the bodies of the aborted fetuses as "damp small pulps with a little or with no hair," indicating that she has seen those bodies after they were removed from her uterus. She makes the melancholy remark that these children will never sing or work.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Gwendolyn Brooks' The Mother

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