Episode 01: Welcome to the Squeeze
(Immersive Verses series)
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The other day I read a feminist’s sign that said…
“I hate it here” Hear me!
Appeared she was walking with others in a pro-choice [direction]
Rallying [retaliating] against the forced birth [precedent]
reality she’d evidently fallen in.
A situ like an inescapable umbilical cord
Wound round her throat and tight right from her very girl start.
Seems to be constricting her rights, suffocating her heart.
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They say on the way into this world
You’re pushed through an opening, a tight squeeze
Through and out into a white room, a new realm
Where someone is telling someone else
To bear down, to push or to squeeze.
A white light, a room, a new realm, one word, “squeeze”
That someone then complies with that command to squeeze.
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Next time you feel yourself getting passed around
With the advice not to squeeze you too tight.
“She’s my precious bundle, my everything.”
“I don’t want anything bad happening to her. Ever.”
“I’d rather it be to me than to her if you know what I mean.”
“I’d give her all the comfort without the pressure.”
“If it were up to me, I’d release her from the squeeze.”
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Next thing: you’re an impressionable innocent
Sitting on your momma’s knee in some place where incense is filling the air.
A man stands elevated and frocked at the front
Expounding on and on about one who was stable born,
A vagrant-by-choice, beaten then murdered for sins and
Is now being shackled by century’s long lengths of myths.
And is rumored to reside in this marbled place.
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It's a sacred space where a constant feedback loop of
Dichotomy abounds as litany beliefs circle this rotunda
Perpetually; while contradictions and sacred hypocrisies
Resound off the walls, bouncing down from the ceiling
They begin to etch upon your em oh, cloy upon your reason
Weaving the while—stitch by inch—
Into the quilt of your patchwork guilt.
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You’re a full grown woman now
With her own maternal mechanism and inducements.
When, that day, you hear a voice on the radio or on the TV
Warning: your living choice is being squeezed inside your female soul.
It’s then you feel a kick at the source of your Spirit’s womb
As if a notion, a truth is alive in there
Wanting to be born.
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Back to the one who’s supposed to love you without conditions…
Carnival type barkers blather on nonstop about THIS Jesus.
But you surmise He’s perched to ply His own brand of squeezes.
He loves you then He loves you not!
He giveth with one hand, then taketh it away again.
Once you’ve passed through the birthing season
You will experience no noticeable reduction in squeezing.
James Rockwood
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Music by Uppbeat:
#1 Inner Harm by Paul Valentin
#2 Pump by Aavriall
#3 Mao Feng by Noxz
Thank you!
Narration and all voice overs by: James Rockwood
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