The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poem Thread, 8/29/07 Bonus

[BlueIris]

"O Patriarchy"

Inaccessible
and remote

behind the drawbridge
of the penis.

Who knows
how your contracts
sprang up

without a word,
natural as rain.

The instituation
of you speaks
for all man kindly,

but if a woman
is offended,
she finds no one there
to blame.

—Elaine Equi

[ThomCat]

1. "but if a woman

is offended,
she finds no one there
to blame"

When everyone is responsible, nobody is responsible. :(
I'm surprised this poem isn't more angry. I'm a guy, and the subject makes me angry.

[BlueIris]

2. "When everyone is responsible, nobody is responsible."

Yeah, that about sums it up.

[BlueIris]

3. Kick.

[BlueIris]

4. This one, I knew, would not by hugh.

Oh, well.

[BlueIris]

5. Kick.

[BlueIris]

6. Kick.

[BlueIris]

7. Kick.

[BlueIris]

8. Kick.

[BlueIris]

9. Kick.

[BlueIris]

10. Kick.

[BlueIris]

11. Kick.

[wildhorses]

12. pretty much sums it up

i try not to generalize. but, sometimes it is really hard not to just go ahead and HATE all men just on general principle.

[BlueIris]

13. Hmm. For the record,

I don't think the speaker in this poem, remote as that speaker is, is encouraging hatred of men, just hatred of Patriarchy. Thanks for commenting, though. The majority of people who viewed this were too chickenshit to do so.

[wildhorses]

14. yeah.

i guess you are right. i am just in a pissy mood tonight. must need my meds adjusted :shrug:

[BlueIris]

15. Kick.

[ismnotwasm]

16. I like it

"Inaccessible and remote" (Visual of "the thinking man" statue here,-- I love your poems)

[BlueIris]

17. I think this poem has a beautiful structure. Clean-limbed, precise.

It cuts through to the heart of a tough subject like that.

[BlueIris]

18. Kick.

[BlueIris]

19. Kick.