Saturday, July 27, 2019

Untitled (Poem by Clara B. Jones)


Untitled#

“How does it feel to be a problem?” W.E.B. Du Bois
“A just world would be one without gender.” Susan Orkin

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subject, center, dominant, worldly, hegemonic, civilization, restraint, agency, instrumental, majority, strong, individual, hierarchy, ego, general, market, exteroceptive (penis), justice, objective, vicious, power, independent, contractual, networks, society, competitive, striving, aggressive, cerebral, self-interest, ruthless, autonomous, Nature, biology, separate, Philosophy, oppressor, realistic, law, protector, criminal, political, transactional, freedom, universal, authority, teacher, The State, industrialization, patriarchy, abstract, attitudes, opinions, logical, values, politics, history, tactics, strategy, struggle, progress, primary, discourse...
spontaneous, intuitive, impulsive, muse, domestic, provident, subordinate, marginal, object, minority, weak, dependent, collective, egalitarian, children, particular, home, “other,” communal, interior/receptive (vagina), emotional, subjective, Madonna/virgin : whore, helpless, needy, non-contractual, relationships, affective, passive, Nature, nice, love, support, caring, instinct, biology, bonding, belonging, Feminism, utopian-unrealistic, oppressed, family, protected, victim, transactional, order, student, agricultural, matriarchy, literal, attitudes, opinions, feelings, illogical, recurrence, motherhood, secondary, gossip...

2.**
She found a fellow worker with whom
To live after primate forebears made
Obligate families with friends. Harboring
A short-term host, she found one
Ancient trait of groups leading
Her tribe to social life. Totemic culture
Was based on selfish codes of hominids
Since the power of conflict deprived them
Of their rational mien. Chance fixed
Marginal ranks for women, though culture
Made them happy before parenthood
Changed everything though time and space
Warped neurons spiking with their thoughts
After forming the context for their discontent.

*Inspired by Fox Genovese, E (1991) Feminism without illusions: a critique of individualism. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
**Inspired by Freud S (1961) Civilization and its discontents. W.W. Norton and Co. New York.

#Published in I am not a silent poet [Es], July 2019

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