This week, while Dave was cleaning a closet, he found an old poetry book I'd written 35 or so years ago and had completely forgotten about.
After he read it, I read it. Again, but for the first time in many, many years. I will have to say, with all humility, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I was reminded of what we women - well, some of us - went through in the 60s and 70s and how much life has changed. And the part some of us had in that change.
Here are a couple.
The Thingmaker (written in 1972)
I saw a layout
in playboy magazine
featuring a racing car
shaped like a woman
dear playboy
I am not a machine
I am a human being
Is your relationship
with your machine
unfulfilling
undemanding
unsatisfactory
unloving
incomplete
unfinished
next time
try a person.
The following was written in 1973
Why Women's Lib,
Confuses me.
Am I the cause of all
my problems,
Or is he?
***
After he read it, I read it. Again, but for the first time in many, many years. I will have to say, with all humility, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I was reminded of what we women - well, some of us - went through in the 60s and 70s and how much life has changed. And the part some of us had in that change.
Here are a couple.
The Thingmaker (written in 1972)
I saw a layout
in playboy magazine
featuring a racing car
shaped like a woman
dear playboy
I am not a machine
I am a human being
Is your relationship
with your machine
unfulfilling
undemanding
unsatisfactory
unloving
incomplete
unfinished
next time
try a person.
The following was written in 1973
Why Women's Lib,
Confuses me.
Am I the cause of all
my problems,
Or is he?
***
