Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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my friend Daisy killed her husband it was premeditated
it was provoked it was murder but she had the best
reason in the world 19
Pauline and Juliet did not have such a good reason it
was youth it was terror it was love it was Pauline’s
mother they killed 20
Tracy was called a lesbian vampire 21 she killed a man
she did not know any man they said she had no reason
at all she said no reason other than patriarchy power 22
and the belief men have that getting in a car with four
women is not only safe but exciting
six-foot tall Jake is in because she has hair on her face
she wears a beard 23 and they arrest her constantly
because they think she’s an eighteen-year old youth
looking for trouble she’s past forty but the skin on her
cheeks is as smooth as silk
the prisons have become more crowded there are
women here from places I’ve only ever seen named on a
map from countries torn by war shredded by bombs
countries where what lies underground is more
important than the people who live there from lands
where women are shrouded where the walls are carried
by their bodies wars in which bodies are bombs