Tuesday, June 2, 2009

BETWEEN THE LINES ("WOMAN" The Subtext)



I'm the "Princess" Story Book,

Full of things so fine —
You really have to study  me 
If you want to read between my  lines!
 

I'm the lovey-dovey dove,
Singing and flirting! — You be
The tree I perch in. Shush! Don't move!
Everybody's listening and looking at me!
 

I'm the garden spiderweb
All spangled and diamonded with dew....
The corner where I display myself,
That's you.
 

I'm the black orchid, I'm the blue rose —
I beautify any spot
In which I pose.
You? The pot.
 

I'm the green green green green grass,
I am so pretteeee!
You be the dandy lyin' weed
— What do you mean, you "don't agree"?
 

I can be anything! Do anything, I can!
Because I am Woman! You hear me?
—What do you mean, you don't want to be
What I say?

Aw, you ain't no man, 
Anyway.





2 comments:

  1. Between The Lines! The Best Poem I Have E V E R Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. Wicked! A brilliant satire on "Woman," not only cleverer, but better poetry than the mediocre original. But it is going to take decades, if not a century, to recover from the current epidemic of "political correctness."

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