Friday, 11 July 2025
Sunday, 6 July 2025
AND IN THE END WE’LL KNOW
Betrayed but never trumped
there was never the test we all could reply to
we worked
we sang
we shouted
wrote letters to the editor
we voted
but
nothing worked
the guilty never
apologised
they got their staff
to express
what they themselves
could not admit
snickering in the game room
priding themselves
on winning the game
whatever and whenever
they are not the rich
not the privileged
not the prized
or prettiest
not the ones who spoke
on stages
in white shirts
not the factory owners
the doctors or the winners
at soccer or hockey
or chocolate factory owners
not even Scrooge
not those we wrote about
in great adventures
putting their lives at risk
trying to control the monster
not the handsome movie star
the tap dancer
or composer of symphonies
these are not to blame
entirely
they are the ones
who wrote the patriarchy
and blamed the witches
those who built muscle
on misogyny
who claimed every voice
a lie if it didn’t praise
the war against the mystery
of life.
Friday, 4 July 2025
Misogyny And Mental Health
Would it be trite to say hate is the seed for violence?
Who do you hate?
Men? Women? Children? Animals?
Does the colour of your flesh
dictate your mental health?
Did you spend ten years
in a classroom
with your arm raised
until it ached
because your teacher refused to acknowledge you?
Was that teacher a woman?
Did your tight lipped teacher
sound authoritarian?
Were the male teachers relaxed
made jokes
loved getting laughs
as though he needed you
to like him?
Were your feelings
generally the same throughout
your school life?
Was your mother loving
was your father too busy to bother
with you
or
did you learn that a woman's voice
was simply a temporary
thing to endure?
soon you would go to college
where all the teachers were male
who dismissed the ideas
of female students?
Did you pick up the deep tones
of prime ministers
their short rebuffs
the attitude of ridicule?
Did the dulset tones of authority
make you feel
as though you were rising up
to the adult world?
Was there a time in your life
where it seemed
masculine was natural
and feminine temporary?
Or did you just seek the truth?
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