Arsenic Lobster poetry journal |
Issue Thirty Winter 2012 |
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All Women Daniel M. Shapiro All women are chimpanzees. This sounds sexist only when read aloud. All women are chimpanzees but lack the body hair, the posture, the feet like hands. Their feet are made to fit in glass slippers. All women look like Pocahontas, the Disney Pocahontas, all slim, athletic, open-minded about intolerance, benign intolerance. They all sing to themselves. If someone starts a sentence by saying all women, the chimpanzee should emerge. The chimpanzee lulls with pratfalls and raspberries. It arises when the typical male falls into the deep sleep of argument It shape-shifts from false Indian form into taut muscle, vise-grip fingers that can crush windpipes, fingers that can never be removed. |
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