Saturday, February 17, 2024

womenfolk

Girlhood was never sugar and spice
nor everything nice. It was gore and violence.
Ring around the rosey was about death.

Just girls night out 
     cut off a man's head, then meet in the night,
     drive them quietly mad - with our silence -
Pin them againist each other.
     The Trojan War. Cleopatra.
           Taj Mahal. 

For our next trick, 
watch us bleed every month
a baby boy is born, chaos magick.

See a little girl will catch a bug, 
      hold it close, kiss it,
      and watch it die in a jar.
Crying her friend is gone,
     having set it all into motion.

Write each man
a letter in my menses
painfully frought.

Just with the taste of iron
     flowing freely out of me,
I could forge a thousand swords
      and fight everyone of you. 
      But I dont.

Cause Womanhood has the horror
you'll never know, cowards puffed up.
While we wear a thorny crown, call it fashion.

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