Poem of the Week, by Ginny Lowe Connors

It is impossible to be a woman, it is impossible to be a woman: a mantra I chant to myself at some point almost every day. This mantra is usually comforting, in a weird way, because it reminds me I didn’t make this suffocating, cruel, abusive system we live in, nor am I alone in it.
Not today, though. Not with an illegitimate supreme court. Not with sanctimonious zealots who believe my religion doesn’t count but theirs does. Not with minority rule that wants to force us into cages. Maybe they think if they just keep saying no, we’ll be dulled into submission.
We won’t.
Betty Parris Hears Only No, by Ginny Lowe Connors
(daughter ef the R.everend Parris)
No running no dancing no wasting of time
no power no nonsense opinions or rage
all of our stitches must march a straight line
no running no dancing no wasting of time
stubbornness ugly defiance a crime
I dream I’ve been captured forced into a cage
no running no dancing no wasting of time
no power no nonsense opinions or rage
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