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Where Are the Women?
Where are the women?
Watching the evening news
I am assaulted by images of men
Who beat their chests,
Fail chains across their taut bodies,
Whip metal upon their torsos.
Their voices roar.
They hurl anger towards those watching.
It is a sea of masculinity
A tsunami wave of testosterone
A savage posse
Where are the women, I wonder?
Home cooking, crying, cradling children, cringing in corners?
Where are the women?
When the men come home from their rampage,
Do they make love to the women?
Do they hold children in their muscles-bound arms?
Do they lend help to an old mother?
I want to tell them to lay down their cold, steely weapons:
Their whips and guns and knives,
The instruments of destruction.
Cleave instead unto your women and savour the warmth of
[human flesh.
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