women think

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Women think of fairy tales as life in Ohio.

Women call the pillow the same name as shimmering bright leaves.

Women (some) turn into prostitutes. Others sit on the ground.

Women are mostly mentally ill, sleeping with their mouths open.

You will find sand in the vagina's of some women.

Sweet saraband prosciutto in others.The

women of Ecclesiastes all flow to the river.

Some women repeat themselves.

Some women will let you sleep with your little bear.

The women in Gulliver's Travels are better off than the men.

Some women will grab hard at your penis.

Some women will turn the lights off to dance.

Some women have been to greatly damaged to go on.

All women will presoak your jeans.

Some women, if they loose a leg,

can regrow another.

Black women text too much.

Asian women cook too much.

Jewish women share too many recipes.

(I am far less careful in the morning)

I knew a woman with six toes on each foot.

She was kind and capable but symbiotic and ritualistic.

Some women make animal sounds at the horizon.

Some women tell you your a great lover, even when your aren't/

others are butterflies that feed on larvae.

Some women will poison the bagel;

all will toast it before you die.

Some women think that good looks

equal good acting.

Some women will save the little boy in you only to let it

run free like exceptional heartache.

Some women will follow you: Squeaky Fromme,

Patricia Krenwinkel...Haight Ashbury...Summer of Love..

TOLD YOU!

Some women you drag, like the end of a heavy couch, to your mother.

Some women break you of your ego on a conference call.

Older women, whose periods have ended,

are better at poetry. By better I mean they call it love,

voice the blues part out. Strum the others.

Big women try to loose weight but cant

and for the first time face failure.

Other women don't give a s**t what shape they

make in the tarumba of a July night.

I have found those to be the best women.

The ones who face gallantly themselves,

 

the only heartbreaking prose to fear.

Reviews

[Corset]

All women will presoak your jeans, lol. hilarious, loved it. also loved
"Some women will save the little boy in you only to let it run free like exceptional heartache."
That grabbed me by the ear.

How is it that this was posted tomorrow?
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[Michael G. Smith]

I've been reading your works and enjoying them. More often than not our perspectives differ but that doesn't matter you have a great style of writing that keeps me enamored. For instance this poem here uses constant repetition in a majority of the verses and I rarely see a write pull this off and make it work. I myself try to avoid it but this piece was compelling. You reminded us that all women are different and human. This is a message we need as woman are often generalized into groups diminishing their god given attributes that make them uniquely individual. Looking forward to reading more in the future take care.

[Marie Anzalone]

Ah, my friend. Some women will read your words and think you misogynist at best, racially biased at worst. Others may read the tenderness behind them, eyes opening in wonder at this rare glimpse into the ordering of a man's heart and how he orders his observations into a cohesive essay on his fellow haunted companions. These are the women who will laugh and nod along, thinking f the double entendre bahind, "all women will presoak your jeans," and wondering where they fit into your observations (when was the last time I actually toasted a bagel? thank God I am not Jewish. What would it feel like to make love to a man who actually wanted to spend the night with me, again, without owning me in any way? How DO I really feel about the space that my shape fills?). Ah yes, we the ines who laugh at ourselves before others. Yes, we know.

[Cory Barrett]

I read this with Jimi Hendrix's "Born Under a Bad Sign" Playing in the background. I am not one of reading with music usually... But it moved me.

[Matching Socks]

What an exceptional piece Dana!
Loved every inch of it. Some really great lines, too many to copy/paste,
But the ending is beautiful. Perfect.

[writing mojo]

feminine in famine of such inverted verbal horticultural nape stakes..I lost my head in perfume pheromone growing blues swallowed my Adam's apples and tucked my tale between my legs... from this the possession of this one...again Dana you took me there...and said in these blank pages and now what!...excellent piece

[Tree]

Blown away the raw power, and beauty, yes beauty. Because this is an ode first, and foremost, and it might not be the one the ladies are expecting, but its one, they'll respect. I liked the contrast you played one another off, too. Very effective, Dana.

A real thought provoking piece...

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is deep...and really an interesting portrait of women...and how they are so different from one another..i like the "helter skelter" reference, with Fromme and Krenwinkel...and juxtaposing that to the Summer of Love.
jacob

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is deep...and really an interesting portrait of women...and how they are so different from one another..i like the "helter skelter" reference, with Fromme and Krenwinkel...and juxtaposing that to the Summer of Love.
jacob

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is deep...and really an interesting portrait of women...and how they are so different from one another..i like the "helter skelter" reference, with Fromme and Krenwinkel...and juxtaposing that to the Summer of Love.
jacob

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is deep...and really an interesting portrait of women...and how they are so different from one another..i like the "helter skelter" reference, with Fromme and Krenwinkel...and juxtaposing that to the Summer of Love.
jacob