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She sometimes fancies herself a poet
Would there be War if men..
If God were truly God enough
To just butt in and do her stuff,
She'd set the scene so men would wax
Their eyebrows, armpits, legs and backs.
And in that great communal need
To please their God, men would indeed
Have little time to stir up war,
They'd all be feeling far too sore.
They'd spend the seven weeks or so
(The average time for hair to grow)
Discussing with anticipation
Less painful means of depilation.
We women (with God on our side)
Would then be free to change the tide,
To change the world, to change the way
The laws are made – and we'd display
Our hairy breasts, whilst men might please
Us nightly with their shiny knees.
First published in Oregon Poets Against the War (eds: Ursula K. Le Guin; Judith
Barrington- Rainy Nights Press, Oregon, 2002).
http://dsaoregon.igc.org/rosecity/pages/literary.html
POEMS, ETC.
'Qatari Women' Sunscripts 2004 Suncoast Writer's Conference (published 2005)
Poetry and essays in Imagining Ourselves (international women's anthology,
forthcoming from the International Museum of Women, San Francisco, 2005). http://www.imaginingourselves.org
Poetry anthologized in In Our Own Words- A Generation Defining Itself Vol.6 MW Enterprises 2005 http://www.evenstar.net/mwe/page6.html
'Ancient Cypress Walk' published in The Pepper Tree Literary Journal, Sarasota, FL, April 2005
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