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announcing the end</l> <l>of things as we know them.</l> <l>Inevitably the world, the nation, the city,</l> <l>the arts, society, sports</l> <l>and personals</l> <l>will be recycled</l> <l>By patient origamists, armed with love.</l> </lg> </div> <div type="poem" n="II"> <head>Questionnaire</head> <lg> <l>There is unfeminine (but oh, so Female)</l> <l>sureness in my hands,</l> <l>checking "No." to every question</l> <l>in the Harris poll, <title key="Reader's Digest" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q371820">Reader's Digest</title>,</l> <l><title key="Mademoiselle" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q738294">Mademoiselle</title>,</l> <l>I am an outlaw, so none of that applies to me:</l> <l>I do not vote in primaries, do not wish to increase</l> <l>my spending power, do not take birth control</l> <l>pills.</l> <l>I do not have a legal residence, cannot tell you</l> <l>my given name or how (sometimes very) old</l> <l>I really am.</l> <l>I do not travel abroad, see no humor in uniforms,</l> <l>and my lips are good enough for my lover</l> <l>as they are.</l> <l>Beyond that, no one heads my household, I would not</l> <l>save my marriage if I had one, or anybody else's</l> <l>if I could.</l> <l>I do not believe that politicians need me, that Jesus</l> <l>loves me, or that short men are particularly sexy.</l> <l>Nor do l want a penis.</l> <l>What else do you have to offer?</l> </lg> </div> <div type="poem" n="III"> <head>I Argue My Case</head> <lg> <l>Gentlemen of the Jury:</l> <l>I have had the time and opportunity to appear</l> <l>before you in the guise</l> <l>(disguise) of every woman:</l> <l>to you, sir, I was the dumb hand</l> <l>that wiped your</l> <l>table,</l> <l>to you, sir, a flimsy black</l> <l>skirt on legs,</l> <l>to you, some hard</l> <l>down-on-me woman who might</l> <l>(or might not) yet</l> <l>be downed again.</l> <l>To him, an ass,</l> <l>to him, a breast, a leg</l> <l>to him.</l> <l>To that one, just another working bitch.</l> <l>To each, another history, to each</l> <l>another (partial) lie.</l> <l>We women are liars, you say.</l> <l>(It is written.)</l> <l>But you have made us so.</l> <l>We are too much caught up in cycles, you say.</l> <l>But your gods cannot prevent that.</l> <l>So we act out our cycles,</l> <l>one or many,</l> <l>in the rhythm of what has to be</l> <l>(because we say so)</l> <l>our common destiny.</l> <l>And so, before you are taken in by one of our</l> <l>perfect circles,</l> <l>remember also that we are in perfect</l> <l>motion.</l> <l>And when you (and you will)</l> <l>run counter to the flow of revolution,</l> <l>the wheel of women will continue to turn,</l> <l>and grind you</l> <l>so fine.</l> </lg> </div> </body> <back> <p>Susan Saxe wrote this and other poems while she was living underground as a fugitive for 4½ years, during which time she was on the F.B.I.'s. <title key="FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" ref="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1386729">Ten Most Wanted List</title> for "overall radical activities." On March 27, 1975, she was arrested in Philadelphia and since then has been tried for allegedly taking part in a Boston bank robbery 7 years ago in which a policeman was killed. Saxe became "a feminist, a lesbian, a woman-identified woman" while underground. She is now in prison awaiting sentence.</p> <p>Reprinted from <title>Talk Among the Womanfolk</title>, Susan Saxe, Philadelphia, Pa., 1976. Susan Saxe. </p> </back> </text> </TEI> Document Download Object Type XML document Related Item No
