Double Mommy Mayhem
By Kate Durbin, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips
Published 11 February 2024
Footnote: this poem was created using the Fill-in-the-blanks constraint as the starting point.
Some notes on source texts: language comes from Lifetime Movies in the ‘troubled pregnancy’ micro-genre, in particular, Double Daddy (directed by Lee Friedlander, 2015) and Pregnant and Deadly aka Dying for a Baby (directed by Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle, 2019); and image comes from Stock Photo 1006604695 by Oleg Kozlov via http://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/two-women-pregnant-bellies-standing-opposite-1006604695.
Some notes on source texts: language comes from Lifetime Movies in the ‘troubled pregnancy’ micro-genre, in particular, Double Daddy (directed by Lee Friedlander, 2015) and Pregnant and Deadly aka Dying for a Baby (directed by Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle, 2019); and image comes from Stock Photo 1006604695 by Oleg Kozlov via http://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/two-women-pregnant-bellies-standing-opposite-1006604695.