{"id":13713,"date":"2024-10-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=13713"},"modified":"2024-11-02T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T13:37:20","slug":"they-have-a-plan-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=13713","title":{"rendered":"THEY HAVE PLANS FOR US – Megha Sood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on the complete abortion ban mentioned in the Project 2025 Manifesto. Severely
\nlimiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA\u2019s approval of mifepristone, a drug
\nused in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th-century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any
\nabortion medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal
\nService. Source: ACLU.Org
\n 
\nOh! yes they have plans for us
\nOh! yes the one they have hammered
\ndown to the last line
\nThe Manifesto
\nword after word
\nline after line;
\npages after pages,
\nmapping the curves of our bodies
\nsilhouettes of our desires:
\ndipped in their thick black inks of subjugation.
\n 
\nYes, they have plans for us
\nboxing all the mottled things
\nbejeweled with life plans, trinkets, and bling
\nunderlining their adoration for us
\ntheir unfettered love, passion
\ntheir soft caring being.
\n 
\nYes, they have plans for us
\nstripping bare our tongues
\nwith hands tied at our backs
\nwombs scraped clean,
\nas pristine and demure as they want us to be
\nwith their stories of success etched
\nin our spines for kingdoms to come.
\n 
\nYes, they have plans for us
\nto carry the love of incest and rape in our womb
\nlicking our wounds clean but never saying a word
\nbringing shunned love to our full breast
\nletting it down a bit,
\nwarmly and gently nursing it every day
\nrecounting the days like a horror story on reels.
\n 
\nYes, they have plans for us
\ntill our thick blood trickles down
\nmurky lanes of a dark empty parking lot
\nfor their sheer pleasure
\na sluice of broken dreams and desires
\ncarrying our strangled future.
\n 
\nYes, they have plans for us
\nfor guarding every inch, every iota of our existence
\nhaving a lien to our soul;
\na perfect story of a mother with rounded bellies,
\nmaking it complete, making it whole.
\n 
\nYes, they have plans for us
\nto get on our knees,
\nto say our prayer for exalted gods in heaven
\nto utter words of salvation and redemption
\ntill the kingdom comes.
\n 
\nYes, they have plans for us
\nto carry blood stories in our sacred womb
\nand not to utter a single word,
\nto hold the bitter truth on the edge of our teeth
\nwhile licking razor blades without spilling a word.
\n 
\nYes, they have plans for us
\nfreeing us from all this self-destruction
\nour simple minds can\u2019t conceive
\ntaking us to yet another hell
\n 
\nthat they have brilliantly mapped out for us.
\n 
\n 
\n\"\"Megha Sood is an award-winning Asian-American author, poet, editor, and literary activist from New Jersey. Literary Partner with \u201cLife in Quarantine\u201d, at Stanford University. Her four poetry collections include the award-winning (My Body Lives Like a Threat,<\/em> FlowerSong Press, 2022), (My Body is Not an Apology<\/em>, FinishingLine Press, 2021), and ( Language of the Wound is Love,<\/em> FlowerSong Press, 2025). She has received support from VONA, Pen Women, Dodge Foundation, Kundiman, and Martha\u2019s Vineyard Writing Institute. Her 900+ works have been featured in print, online journals, public exhibits, and anthologies including the Poetry Society of New York, MS Magazine, NYPL, Pen Magazine by American Pen Women, PBS American Portrait, NPR, WNYC Studio<\/em>, etc, and numerous universities including Stanford University, Howard University, George Mason, Columbia. Her poems and anthology The Medusa Project<\/em> have been selected to be sent to the moon in 2025 as part of the historical LunarCodex Project in collaboration with NASA\/SpaceX. Find her at https:\/\/linktr.ee\/meghasood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on the complete abortion ban mentioned in the Project 2025 Manifesto. Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA\u2019s approval of mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th-century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service. Source: [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-13713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-art-by-seema-kholi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13713"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13779,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13713\/revisions\/13779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}