After a suc­cess­ful­ly per­formed abortion
my wife returned from the hospital,
went to bed, fell asleep.

I sit in the kitchen, per­fect­ly still
so as not to wake her,
drink­ing beer, gaz­ing out the window
at the hori­zon, wondering:

Had our daugh­ter been born,
what would we have named her ?

Can some­one with­out a name
be real­ly dead ?

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