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Middle-Aged White Woman (Free verse) by Dovina

Maybe it’s time. You look at me and see a symbol of conservative acts that hurt you. My kind abused your kind. Now with your freedom, your authority, your power, it’s time for retribution. Go ahead, ignore me, don’t hire me belittle me in your verse skip over me at your readings. My ancestors did it to your ancestors. You have the right. It’s a new experience for me, that’s all. Maybe it’s time.

zodiac 25-Apr-05/10:43 PM
I believe it is possible; it's certainly been done well hundreds of times. The trick is probably to find some new angle, like Alice Walker writing about blacks's search for post-African identity in her short story "Everyday Use", Zora Neale Hurston writing about power-struggles in isolated all-black communities in all her books, or (since I haven't named a white author yet) all the white authors of the television show "Martin".

No, "maybe it's time for retribution" is not a new angle.




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