Monday 12 April 2010

Lex talionis II


Deliver us from the original sin which placed women
In a category of secondness and evil, the knowledge
Of bodies sacrament in nature then turned to sin
The snake that phallus curled around the revenge
Of gendered difference, the apple the gift of Venus
From the ball of Zeus, spermed the myth of moral
Superiority that taught men to seek the society of boys
The ritual of mystery is a screen for the fear of mortality
Women and children suffered to take the pledge
Of turning the body to the government of men
Then such matters become encoded in the practice
Of power, then mitre and habit cloth this sin.

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