coffee and a blank page a feminist writes, rants, remembers

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Will you save me the choicest bits of meat when you sacrifice a calfWill you sacrifice your first bornWill you swear to remain a virginOr to become oneDo you speak in tongues when you speak in propheciesHave you been a tree a bird a woman fleeing on footHave you turned into stoneIf you had to choose a ravishing which would you chooseA swan a bull a cascade of coinsHymen is the god of marriageWill you obey usWill you call us FatherWill you call us DaddyWill you praise usWill you praise usWill you praise usWill you call it love Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband.What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved? Ovid, MetamorphosesDisregard what poets tell you.They hear the thump of their own heartsand think they have discovered a universe.Or presume that my beloved, musician to the godswho never flubbed an entrance in his life,might in eagerness miscount the beats remainingto lift his wife back out of death.Turn for me too soon, an accident.You living march toward darknesslike a parade, joyous and cacophonousand blind. Whereas I have already worn my shroud.And I have already tasted ashes.The sunlight you steep in cannot thaw bonesalready chill with such fore-knowledge.Seethe truth. In his final triumphant crescendo,Orpheus heard a single word fallfrom my mouth like a stone:At a rally yourself tonight? Please, share your own stories and pictures in the comments they give me life!Rallies are being held across the country, on this eave of the House s impeachment vote, to call on Congress to uphold their oaths and to impeach and remove the narcissistic thug who has turned our political system into a multi-national criminal enterprise.Organized by MoveOn.org and local activists, these Nobody Is Above the Law events provide us all with an opportunity to take a public stand and make our position on this critical issue unmistakably visible. (To find a rally near you.)Unsure what difference public protest can make? SHOW UP. Convinced that the fix is already in, in the Senate? SHOW UP. Feeling defeated after enduring the last three years of this sh*t? GODSDAMN SHOW UP.Convincing others that their voices matter starts with convincing ourselves that our own voices do still matter.Constant resistance is a hard, often demoralizing posture to hold, day after day. Calls to elected officials can feel like a lonely, all-by-myself process. But. We. Are. The Majority. We have laws, and the Constitution, and diversity, and need, and fricking RIGHTEOUSNESS on our side.Somewhere in a story, not yet knowing Jason s name, Medea dreams of floating away across the wine-dark sea into adventure. Her brother s dismemberment yet awaits her, and the scattering of his parts upon the ocean like torn bread tossed to ducks. Dragon-teeth remain unplanted, a father s treasures unravished. Many years and many tales not-yet-told lay between her in this moment and the slaughtering of rivals with sartorial poison, the kebab ing of sons on barbeque skewers to serve at their father s remarriage feast.Even before the evils, back when her smiles were still Glenda-the-good-witch charming, Medea caught the mind s eye. More than Jason ever could, that milquetoast memorable for theft and desertion, and capturing the love of a woman so far beyond him that only rankest misogyny stifling to stillborn our daughters horizons explains it.I would be Medea, if I could. Even in the before, yes. And in the after, a thousand thousand yeses. I would stand bathed in blood and vengeance; I would know the dangers of disobeying and fling myself regardless from an Olympic peak. Brief meditation on the current news and the nature of survival. (Heads up for topic of sexual assault/triggering/Epstein.)♦ ♦ ♦Yesterday, I read the charges filed against co-defendents Epstein AND Trump for their numerous violent sexual attacks on the same 13yo girl in 1994. It was awful, but I m used to awful—and the almost-clinical tone of most legalese is generally easier to get through than more evocative writing on the same subject.And then there were a few words, a halfway-rendered visual image in my head. . . suddenly I m dizzy, light-headed : my arms are burning : : it hurts to breathe : : :More than 12 hours later, I still can t say to you what those words were. Not that I don t know, you understand. I am perfectly clear what tripped the trigger, but they are surrounded by a giant bubble of silence and darkness that threatens to pull me back in each time I reach to pull those words out.I ve been here before.Maybe you have too. In which case, we both know we ll be here again, at some unpredictable time.Expectation of the unexpected. Continue reading Awe a feminist writes, rants, remembers Read Alice via Email Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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