Any excuse to subject you to my poetry! Although it, along with the poems of many women on this board, does raise money for For Women Scotland who brought this case to the Supreme Court.
THE FOUR MAGIC WORDS
“I am a woman!”
He pronounces to all.
And in that moment
the predator becomes prey.
The oppressor the oppressed.
Means that the man
holds all the aces.
Women only: now entered.
The women fall silent.
The man just gloats
at the glorious intrusion,
into female only places.
Rape group? Free entry.
Toilets? Come on in.
Prisons? Take your pick!
Changing room? There too.
These ‘women’ are men.
“Known since aged four.”
Says the autogynephilic man.
That is not true.
Do not dare retort,
or even make waves.
If you say “NO!”
Then: hate crime report.
“I will bloody huff,
and puff! Your life?
Blown up into chaos!”
Wolf in grannie’s dress!
The men now rule,
though, was ever so.
But this is now.
Two thousand twenty four.
This is not right.
We women must fight,
to keep men out
of all our spaces.
Men cannot just demand
things so not true.
We do not consent.
We will not relent
on these four words.
For they are ours,
and our words alone.
They belong to us,
not to a man.
Man has no right
to utter those words.
Only we can say:
“I AM A WOMAN”
WOMAN
From Barbie to GI Joe we are “woman”.
From high heels to rigger boots we are “woman”.
From flat chested to buxom we are “woman”.
From mother of six to barren with nil we are “woman”.
From “3 days, very light” to “36 days now, still flooding” we are “woman”.
From homeless with nothing to Millionaire’s Row we are “woman”.
From far left to far right we are “woman”.
From pro-choice to pro- life we are “woman”.
From (pick religion of choice) to no God at all we are “woman”.
From only does cock to only does cunt we are “woman”.
From all walks of life and from all points of view we are “woman”.
From time of conception to moment of death we are “WOMAN”.
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