WOMAN

WARNING: Graphic language

Hold your tongue, woman,

And know your place.

You are only good for three things -

Your cook, your clean, and your c**t.

 

Teach them to exist for my amusement,

These daughters you are raising.

Raise them content to be owned;

A possession and a plaything.

Obsess them with an ideal of beauty

Impossible and sick;

Teach your sons to think of them as but

Receptacles for dick.

In your music, in your movies

Make him think that he can earn it

Make him believe that p***y

Is his birthright, he deserves it;

That if he has money, and power

Cinderella will follow

If you’ve got it, then no b***h

Can dare tell you no.

Tell him he was born superior -

It is written, it is known

Then misconstrue your scriptures

To make it seem so…

 

Men are wild and vicious creatures

Born to rip, and bred to tear

To want, for them, is to take:

So watch what you wear.

Can you provoke a lion into mauling you

Then take him to task for it?

If you go out, looking like that

Then you are asking for it.

A woman’s place is the bedroom

Is the market, is the kitchen;

A woman is to be bought and sold:

A factory for children.

 

So when she talks back to me

I don’t hesitate to stretch my arm -

When I s**t on her, when I break her down

I forget how small I am.

 

Reviews

[M.Babu]

What!
Perfectly sums up all the foolishness going around locally.
Very well put. The satire is glaring!
~M.Babu~

[Laura Lynn]

this is sexy until the last two lines, the last two lines is the most disgusting thing I ever read, but it is quite the dramatic twisted, thanks,

[Alvin L. Kathembe]

Hello Laura thanks so much for taking the time to read, and review.

The last two lines are not meant to be taken literally - I wish to evoke disgust, but directed toward the persona, for his narrowness. I used the phrase 's**t on' to mean demoralize, or break down. These lines are the summation of the whole piece.

This is definitely NOT a sexy poem, more a sexIST poem, or a satire of a sexist's perspective.

All oppression is connected.