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Apocryphal Idols<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Cheryl Vail, with image above<\/em>\u00a0by Martin Gollan<\/em><\/p>\n Liberty\u2019s a goddess she isn\u2019t an automaton\u00a0 \u00a0 that prefix doesn\u2019t work libertas the origins of\u00a0 \u00a0 means \u2018belonging to the people\u2019 how can she be free\u00a0 \u00a0 when she belongs to \u2018the people\u2019 Apocryphal Idols by Cheryl Vail, with image above\u00a0by Martin Gollan Liberty\u2019s a goddess yet how can she embody her name when she isn\u2019t permitted to be\u00a0 \u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":14709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2634],"class_list":["post-14713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-roe-vs-wade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
yet how can she embody her name
when she isn\u2019t permitted to be\u00a0 \u00a0 as she is
when her own choices are sand through a\u00a0 \u00a0 sieve held
in someone else\u2019s hands<\/p>\n
she\u2019s more marionette\u00a0 \u00a0 bound by politicians\u2019 strings
or paper doll\u00a0 \u00a0 her dimensions compressed<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and this in turn means \u2018free\u2019
but what is freedom at the cost of her body
but what is freedom at the exhaustion of her will<\/p>\n
when she doesn\u2019t belong to herself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"