OBSOLETE
ARE MEN OBSOLETE ?
Resentment scented flowers bitterness weed
Do you really want to wake up in a country
without men ? Why bash them so heartily then?
Locate yourself in the thickness of things If you
smile at the ape-man up there on the roof he will
smile back All thoughts of jumping you will vanish
He is youngish not un-handsome must have sisters
a mother somewhere ? Try this every day for a month
You will have him eating out of your hand instead of
drooling on the shingles
Confront brutes with words that rhyme
You will be the pied piper lady poet of your block
The man with the shovel out back will lay his coat on the
melting snow and encourage you to join him at the altar
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Winter 2014
songanddancegirl 