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The Mpreg Poem-1 – Aileen Zhao_Page_5

I am saving my wishes for other things. 17. There is a difference between what I know to be true, my extensive philosophizing on gender theory, and the things my body will accept. 18. It is the purpose of the salmon to fuck and die. They swim against current, against the simplest and truest working of the world just to have their babies. Their bodies change, turn the color of red meat and algae. They get sharper , their jaws distend. The roe is beautiful and shiny and orange and they become monstrous to make it. 19. Some people are so sure. But I. 20. Maybe if I loved someone a lot. Maybe if I got top surgery, if I had money, if I knew for sure I’d live the year , and the next and the next and the next and the next 21. I dream of eating, of tasting placenta, crunching on the tiny bodies pro-lifers wave outside of clinics. Of it inside me and then we can both be trapped in

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