Family planning resources
The words entered the room and settled there like a judge taking a seat.
Before.
Before the surgery.
Before Diego called me a traitor.
Before his mother came with trash bags.
Before Paula smiled across a coffee shop table and stroked her own flat stomach like she had already won.
Before the neighborhood whispered.
Before I slept with a chair against my door.
Before all of that, this baby had already existed.
I covered my mouth.
Birth Control