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      April 25, 2016The C-SectionAlexis Pauline Gumbs

      for V.M., who gave birth to a healthy baby who the state immediately took away, charging cruelty and neglect due to her choice not to have a C-section

      i.
      (words used in the post-appeal court decision confirming the ruling)
       
      cut
       
      clerk copy credible
      custody concession
      child-protective contraction
       
      cut
      cut
      critical cut
      care completed
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      colleagues conceded
      consistent counsel
      certify copy consent
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      clear convincing comprehended
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      control compliance consent
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      conduct contends
      concepts constitutional
      citing crisis clothing color
      caseworker cleared
      claim care
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      case confirmed
      concepts committed
      condone conclude confront condition
      cognitive competency
      college–educated consequences
       
      confront uncontrollable combative
      control care
      critical cause
      contemplate
      continue
      comprehend
      continue
      consider
      continue
       
      control care carefully
      cut
       
      calling counsel calling
      Charchman calling
      Chancery calling Christopher
      calling clerk counsel colleagues
      calling Coleman
      calling Collier
      claim credibility
      claim consent
      complications
      class compliance
      conduct control
      change
      consider coping
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      culpable criminal cruelty
      countervailing color conditions
      clearly conflicts
      childhood cancelled
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      civil compelling
      clarified concern
      cooperate counsel
      confirm cruelty
      contact court
      confront childhood
      culpable civil
      comprehensive cruelty
      clearly conflict
      central complaint
      compensation cured
      comments
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      confer color
      confer cruelty
      confer contraditions
      cut corpus
      citing compelling comprehensive court-ordered complications
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      call cruelty care
      call cruelty concern
      chronic court cruelty
      cause crisis
      call concession
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      court-ordered
      childbirth
      construct cocaine connection
      construct criminal corpus
      construct conditions
      continuously comment
      considering color
      cannot contemplate
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      ii.
      (words nowhere/to be found)
       
      calm circle
      comfort
      candles
      cradle
      cuddle
      coo
       
      crying
      celebration
       
      cute
      cereal
      crib
      carseat
      cookies
       
      creation
       
      crazy constellation
      complicit complacency
      complete confabulation
      cement confusion
      cloaked co-optation
      common cattle
      choke crush cram choice
      clinical close-mindedness
      cowards cowards cowards
      crooked core
      corrupt crumbs
      cold closure
      cornered contained
      cloistered caged
       
      cord chorus
      congregation cry
      challenge classism
      capture conscience
       
      cry courage
      cry coercion
      clap choir clemency
      cry capable courageous champion
      crucible carrying confidence
       
      crucial chain
       
      cry craving
      cry creation
       
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      from #51 - Spring 2016

      Alexis Pauline Gumbs

      “I am a queer black troublemaker and a black feminist love evangelist in Durham, North Carolina. My poetry follows the tradition of the black feminist poets whom I research and study. This set of poems is inspired by Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Marlene Nourbese Philip and many more.”