Joanna Gilman Hyde

After hearing about Rogers’

shut down

on CBC Radio

Eye listened attentively to samples

of a women’s pro-choice protest in Washington D.C.

(My Mother almost marched there

against the Viet Nam War butt

got rear-ended at a toll booth instead)

and on CIFA Radio

Helen Reddy sang out

“BUT I AM STILL AN EMBRYO

with a long long way to go –“