Friday, September 13, 2019

PROFILE


she created overheated characters
who were punished and dismissed
women who were raised by manuals

balancing her burden of flesh
(can’t you control your flesh?)
until she was caught defying 
     the patriarchy

now she is no longer the person 
    who hurt him 
the beautiful woman 
so in need of money
but a corpse in the ground

‘Protestant whore!’


Rationem inire:
When objectification is combined
with modesty and virtue well
the issue then has to do
with the flesh of women from which meaning
is extracted she shed the wife and mother
and became only a young
beautiful woman in need of money
taking her place
briefly in the sun