(Time and people change or is it only time or only people?)

Bye-bye stigma.
You existed, we know,
'cause you were part
of our vocabulary,
like sin or Satan.
We FELT your presence
near when a single
woman or girl got pregnant
or gave birth to the little
creature only to abandon
it on church steps
afterward;

when a teenage boy
stole or in another way
riled the cops then,
consequently, spent a night
or two behind bars;

when a family split for good
like atoms in all sorts of
directions;

when a woman slept around
(not a man);

when two men liked each
other a bit much;

when a woman, married
or single, drank too much
and it showed in her slurred
speech;

when a black and blue
Mrs stepped into a police
station naming as culprit
her husband;

and when neighbors either
cussed like cutthroats
or declared bankruptcy.

Yes, bye-bye stigma
and hello
whole new...

social handiwork?