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November 9, 2003
November Poem--Don Marquis--The First Feminist
A light entertainment from that most famous of works--Love Sonnets of a Cave-Man
XIII. The First Feminist
Don Marquis
When first I chased and beat you to your knees
And wried your arm and marked your temple bone
And wooed you, Sweet, and won you for my own,
Those were not hairless-chested times like these!
Wing'd saurians slithered down the charnel seas
And giant insects glistened, basked, and shone,
And snag-toothed ape-men fought with knives of stone --
And wise she-spouses mostly aimed to please!
But were not you the Primal Feminist
Ten hundred thousand years ago, my Love,
When we were first incarnate? I will say
Women Expressed themselves e'en then, Sweet Dove!
I do recall as if 'twere yesterday
That time your teeth met through my dexter wrist
Posted by Steven Riddle at November 9, 2003 7:52 AM
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