Thanks MC,

Personally I am pro choice but dislike the associated terminology. The individual circumstances are too diverse to be dealt with in such black and white ways.

It was desperately sad, something he had hoped would enhance his already troubled life ultimately destroyed it.

David

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There are ongpoing questions, often of a volatile nature, about
abortion, currently subject of public disquiet in Arizona USA.
It can seem that there can be an argument that says the tragic
life endured by the subject of this poem only adds fuel to the
heated discourse about the legal use of the procedure.

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For clarity as I understand this scrawl is not straight forward.

A friend of mine who subseqeuntly took his own life after what was a tortuous life confided in me in the months before his passing. He had discovered his conception was the result of a violent rape of which he was not aware until at the age of 22 he could no longer deal with the agony of not knowing who he was or how he truly came to be.

The consequent discovery only added to his misery, he decided to relieve his pain by means of public transport on the tracks.

He took to calling himself "Bastard" among other things which were extremely disturbing. I told him his father was the "Bastard" not him.

He has no living relatives and as such I saw no harm in writing this.

As repellant as it is in parts it is nowhere near the horrors he put himself through.

He was a violent, self harming, self abusing and extremely distrubed man his entire life. I tried to be a friend but it was one of the hardest relationships I've ever been unfortunate enough to endure.

There are references within the piece which will probably appear to not make any sense without the detailed back story, but there it is for what it's worth, without the greater detail.

David.

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