post abortion interview

no there wasn’t
love
or it got lost

no I wasn’t
drunk
but I forgot

what happens to women’s
bodies
on unimportant nights

no there wasn’t much
pain
or it didn’t last

no there wasn’t
shame
except I had

to ask a man for
money
& I counted it

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Carla Sarett is a poet and fiction writer based in San Francisco. She Has Visions, her debut poetry collection, will be published in Fall 2022 (Main Street Rag), and her novel, A Closet Feminist (Unsolicited) appeared earlier this year.