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Equality (Free verse) by sarah

i need your love like the earth needs water i knead your love like a kitten kneads her mother i need your love like a thought strives to be original yet continues to recycle and reprocess the historical life in centripetal forces of course will always bring you back around the world has lifted this little girl up and then it consistently throws her back down still you know that i always come back around i am a warrior of womanhood gone wrong, then dusted off to sing a song this melody is a memory of older and odder ladies of the language of men i will carry on crusades that are much older than the blood in my veins i have collected the selective subconscious of my elders in a hearst that i have outlayed i am a witch who has come to raise their distant voices which were thought to be decayed i carry on torches that burned near so far as i can see beyond the sun and time and without restraint to "days" they are the voices of empathy they are the voices of truth they are the voices of sharing they are the voices of youth within each search of my ancestral links i can see nothing yet when i look around i see that everyone is linked to me there is no escape you see? you equals me equals equality. right? so what's with this double tongued entendre that i have been taught to embrace? equality in reality is beginning to mean "i'm better than you" when you look in its face the folks who preach this far too frequently have never even looked up the meaning equality is the condition of being treated equally let's disregard what you think of my history i fear this will never happen yet i work towards the peaceful ways of tolerance i believe that when we are finally free you will embrace me regardlessly

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 26-Apr-04/12:29 AM
You know what's worse than th insincere rhetoric of equality? This poeme.

[_] AABB rhyming scheme
[_] About romantic love
[_] About poetry-writing
[_] About suicide or self-mutilation
[_] Arbitrary indentation
[_] Arbitrary line breaks
[_] Autobiographical but in the third person
[X] Clerical errors
[X] Cliched imagery (staring out of window, pits of despair)
[_] Cliched rhymes (love/above etc.)
[X] Devoid of alliteration or any such linguistic embellishments
[X] Devoid of rhyme
[_] Devoid of simile, reification or any such literary devices
[_] Devoid of wond'rous or fantastical imagery
[_] Drug references
[_] Elves, unicorns, etc.
[_] Exclamation points used to mark 'the funny bits'
[_] Insipidly whimsical or zany
[_] Leaving rant
[X] Lower case only
[X] Melodramatic
[_] Naively religious or superstitious
[X] Obsessed with femininity
[_] Overabundance of ellipses
[_] Overuse of 'depression' words (putrid, wretched, darkness, etc)
[_] Pointedly unanswered questions
[_] Protagonist has a smug name
[X] Rage against the machine
[_] References to the author's 'social life'
[_] Repetition of a single word or phrase to the point of nausea
[X] Sanctimoniously moral
[_] Sentimental
[_] Self-pity
[_] Thesaurophilia
[_] Use of internet shorthand or emoticons
[_] Vicarious wish fulfilment

Bonus comment: Kittens do not knead their mothers.

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