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This blog contains mostly my poetry and a few thoughts from time to time. The thoughts will be entered when and wherever I feel necessary to keep things in proper order. Thoughts and things not belonging to me will be denoted with asterisks. Poems will be archived by the date which they were written, not by that which they were posted. I tend to update things a month or few after being written so as to keep current issues from wandering unattended around the web.

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[somberlife was first created July 11, 2004]


“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Not A Man

I am not a man
I am not a “lesser version of a man”*
I am a different creature.
I am a woman.
We are made from different structures.
We are still human.

When will the men of the world,
the men of our lives,
the men who say they love us,
look [stop and really look]
at how they treat the
women they say they love.



* Byrne, J. O God of Players. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
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