MENocide

Post by **inkedgoddess** » April 23rd, 2007, 9:59 am

shhh
dont be angry
swallow the anger
be quiet
shhhhhhh
dont show youre angry

be a lady
be polite

ladies dont curse
or spit or shit or fart
or pee

just wear those stillettos
blondie

but don't talk

Post by **Doreen Peri** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:00 am

Whitebird sings of loving men.
Ahhh how lucky, miss!
Hopes of love like that can come again
starting with a kiss!

But some girls have been beaten.
Some girls have been used.
Some girls need to rant and vent
and sing da blues!

....

Male bashing isn't a pretty ordeal, I know.
But better to let it out with the pen then throw
fits in the real world again and again!

....

I had to wear sunglasses for 2 years once.
My man beat me after downing whiskey.
Blackened my eyes, would wake up and cry
say he was sorry and want to get frisky.
Oh my GOD why I stayed for so long, I'll never know...
Was it ME who was crazy? I loved him so...
How can a woman love a man who beats her like that?
I was young ... the love was so intense! I could have been killed!
And though the years have passed, my heart is still
tender.... I willed myself away from him.
Tried love again with another guy
and by and by I continued to fail.

Sometimes a woman needs to wail!
I once was a member of a harem.
Dude had 20 of us, maybe, each one told
"You are the only one!"

By then I wasn't young but I sure was dumb.

Some girls aren't as lucky as you, dear Whitebird.
Some girls aren't as lucky as you.

Post by **inkedgoddess** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:01 am

your ass sags
like your tits
youre 52
and cant get a job

age is just a number
yea right.......

your ass sags
your tits look like pancakes

but you hold your head up high

then want their girltoys
but when you run amok
on some 26 year old buck

they call you a crazy
horny old broad
and want to commit you

Post by **Susan Marie** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:03 am

people
bleed

the world is
hemophiliac

and thats a fact man

we are animals
forging our faces
to a dying breed

doesnt mean i dont love
means i have been hurt

and instead of being a
bell
tower
shooter

or a forever
man
hating
bitch

or worse

i choose to screw this thread
with my words

instead of my soul
or that

of the next lovely person

that crosses my path

Post by **Susan Marie** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:07 am

and its pretty sad when
an
airport
is a better lay
over

at least there
you get water
wine
service
even if it is
temporary and
short lived
at least you are not
left lilting
like a dying weed in the sun

you get a bag of fuckin peanuts
and a magazine
instead of a blow
off
jerk
job
good for nuthin
not even a
"i care for you deeply"
or "i'm trying"
and don't even try and pull an

"I love you"

cuz I know if you are faking

i dont wanna hear you had a bad childhood man
who didnt so go fuck yourself
get over you
get the concrete block
off of your

dick/pussy/tits
whatever your niche

and start living life
before you are dead and buried
singing a fucking requiem to yourself

I'll bring daisies and scatter them in the dirt

I promise

Post by **Whitebird Sings** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:08 am

d,
i've never thought about the pain i've seen and felt and held to be luck. ...still can't. i work at trying to stay afloat in a world filled with fear where people find it easier to say i hate you than they do i love you. i had my share of tears and then some, still do. "men-ocide"... is that who we are becoming as women? is equality going to be a matter of our own witch hunts? "men-ocide" this is not holding men accountable. "men-ocide" this is hatred. i've been the lone voice before, ...will be again -- there is no healing here, and it doesn't make me feel any safer as i ready myself to step into the city streets. so it is.
wb

Post by **judih** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:10 am

hey ya i'm pissed
whatdya think
holding in the rage
don't do no good
my anger drips into sarcasm poisoning his food

i need to play the moment
stretch the pain
enter the agony, paint it with verbs
i need to examine the self that put up with that shit
i need to look at her in full flooded daylight

today i can look
i can watch
i can listen

i can comfort
i can cradle
i can shelter that shivering victim

i, this moment, i
can write the words with hindsight
i can focus rage on perpetrator
i can recognize a sadist
and lead that old self out the back door

walk away from the past
it was, it lingered, now gone
walk into the future
without him

Post by **Susan Marie** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:12 am

i am a Buddhist

yet cannot rant without having
the Bible

thrown at me

adios

you wanna see pain?

dont you dare open ME up

you wanna see love

I will shower you like no other

but please

I grew up IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC

and do not need
to be told

how to sit stand kneel or speak

when I am FREE

in my speech

i do not hurt

i bleed

and the fact jack

is if I didnt

write

i would be full of

hate
envy
greed

dont you see

that THIS

here and now

is past
present
future

being saved
sent from
above
through words
not spite
or fright

get it together cuz if you dont let loose
of your own pains

they creep upon you one day
like a bony finger
tip a rat
a tatting

Post by **Doreen Peri** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:13 am

whitebird - I love you. I do. I think there IS healing in ranting words! Sometimes I need to vent and rant. Love breeds love but when you have been treated poorly, when you have continually been hurt no matter how hard you have tried, well I think ranting is healthy! Get it OUT of your head and heart... then move on!

The ladies have pain.
It's just a release.
So be it.

As for me, I vote for love
but sometimes my vote
doesn't count.

Post by **Whitebird Sings** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:16 am

the lines are blurring here...
"menocide" and swearing and shitting and farting and having a voice.
going down on hairy balls for hours and liking it.
good girls and
rape and beatings
disguised.
self disclosure --
mine was a gun to the temple as i held my baby in my arms.
that's just one of my stories.
we all have many.
we need to sort this out.

i don't want us to be like "them"
i don't want us to go to the shadow place,
if we do
then "they" have won.
LUCKY THEM!

Post by **Susan Marie** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:16 am

I am all about love

I was just ranting

Namaste

Post by **Whitebird Sings** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:20 am

dear j
dear d
dear women
and joel
i love you too.
i rant too.
so i said in post one.
i'm saying
we need to do it different.
we are different.
no more for me to say.

Post by **judih** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:21 am

yin clarifies yang
we need to go to the edge
fully to the edge
in order to define it

only then can we run to the other side
fully to the other

and only then can we find the middle

we need to be brave enough to look
i am all human beings
if he can do it, i am capable
if she can think it, so can i

As soon as i am strong enough to face myself
i can do something to plan my own salvation

innocence has saved me a few times
knowledge has saved me a few times
i like being safe

Post by **judih** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:23 am

wb,
you've been through the wringer
now it's the time for someone else to run the obstacle course
we will meet on the other side
you know we will

Post by **Whitebird Sings** » April 23rd, 2007, 10:27 am

yes j,
and as they run
it seems to me we have an obligation
to them, to us, to others
to minimize the damage.
don't you think my friend?
as for the other side,
i live for that day
when we walk together
again.
wb xo

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