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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-13-09 06:55 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 6/13/09
"Who Said It Was Simple"

There are so many roots to the tree of anger
that sometimes the branches shatter
before they bear.
Sitting in Nedicks
the women rally before they march
discussing the problematic girls
they hire to make them free.
An almost white counterman passes
a waiting brother to serve them first
and the ladies neither notice nor reject
the slighter pleasures of their slavery.
But I who am bound by my mirror
as well as my bed
see causes in color
as well as sex

and sit here wondering
which me will survive
all these liberations.

~Audre Lorde
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-13-09 07:06 PM
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1. My dear BlueIris...
This one puzzles me...

What's it about?

Women as slaves, or sex objects?

Thanks!

:hi:
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-13-09 07:21 PM
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2. I read this as one woman's struggle to be both black and feminist.
As well as the speaker's frustrations with the inherent racism of the early second-wave of feminism.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-13-09 10:49 PM
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3. That was my take on it, too. Thanks
Edited on Sat Jun-13-09 10:50 PM by Tuesday Afternoon
on edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedick's
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