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Author: Sherri London Pastolove

Sherri London Pastolove is the author of two poetry collections, Cowgirls and Love in D Major. Her poems have appeared in Newsday, the 911 Memorial Artists Registry, Corona: An Anthology of Poems and many other publications. You can follow her blog “What Do You Say, Sherri Darling."
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A Pregnant Pause

Sherri London Pastolove

A poem for the end of Roe v. Wade:

“the keyboard is mightier
than the sword
and our weapon lies
between our ears
not our legs

“we have marched for less
we have cried for less
yet together we burn bright
light the path for our daughters”

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