Woven Rights

That staunch determined feminist
Championing women's rights, waiting to enlist
That improbable inability to love
An impropriety, a reflection of strength, character and nerve
She eschews all affection, embracing freedom
Until the rise into feminist corporate martyrdom
Oh, she's so sure
Immersed in feminist literature.

Wait, is she so certain of that (corporate) deal
Denial of what is unbridled, visceral and real?
No cause is greater than the feminist cause
Nothing but a legal clause
in Love Labour's Lost.

Unwavering resolve
Never to be involved
Nothing emotionally ostentatious
That stable job: Upper echelons, management
Stately mansion, convertible - expressive yet reticent
Not love, materialistic and pretentious.

What will it matter
Never to settle?
Torn between pragmatism and dogmatic virtues
Unchanging fate seals
That propounded Messianic Masochism.
As, unperturbed, she stares into the prism
Of Age, interminable progression
Of youth, or perhaps it mellows
When she grows
Oh, she's so sure
Immersed in feminist literature.

/Gvoz/
November 29, 2001

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1 Comment(s):

• Attempted to portray the dogged determination to further the feminist cause - that almost militant aggression and in your words - soldierly. In so doing, the protagonist ironically attains the stereotypical qualities that she so detests, perhaps ingratiating herself to that masculinity that propels her to success but the denial slowly leads to spiritual poverty. Messianic Masochism is a pun on machismo, that very chauvinism she has been fighting for her whole life - as she peers back to survey the battles with trepidation, she awkwardly realises the battle has been for naught, nothing has changed, including her loneliness.

  Written at Dec 10, 2004, 3:05:00 AM by  gvozdika

   

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