When Compassion is a Value
When Progress
Is Measured
By
How Much Truth
We Dare
To Know, To Speak
When Pushing a Wheel-Chair is Worth More Than Your Stocks
When Peace is More Than a Logo on Some T-shirt the Gap is Selling
When Patriotism is Pacifism
When We Stop Believing in Borders
When We Stop Building Walls
When Courage is Not a Gun
When War is Not an Option
When Man is No Longer Defined by NOT Woman
When Beauty is No Longer Measured in 2’s and 4’s
When We Can Stand Naked Without Sucking in Our Guts
When We Stop Applying Perfume
To Cover up the Scent
Of What They so Presumptuously Call “Feminine Oder”
And Instead,
Let Pussy Smell Like Pussy
When Our Bumper Stickers Read Not, “God Bless America,” but
God Bless the Orphan in Gaza
God Bless the Widow in Afghanistan
God Bless the 15 year Old Boy in Yemen Who’s Learning to Shoot a Missile
God Bless the Woman in the Congo Who’s Been Raped More Times than She Can Count
God Bless US All
When We Remember That the Man We Call God
Came From the Vagina of a Poor Palestinian Woman
When a Black –
Muslim –
STONE
BUTCH
Who’s Taken a Punch
Who Knows the Meaning of the Word Dyke
Who Prays to an Indigenous God
Who Took the First Bite of the Apple and Enjoyed It
Who Remembers Stone Wall – And the Hard Fist from the Cop
Who Was Burned at the Stake
Who Was an American before Columbus
Who Marched in Birmingham, in South Africa, in India, in Palestine
Who Was There, at the Bottom of the Ship, Crossing the Atlantic
Who Sat in the Back
Who Drank from the Other Water Fountain
Who Jumped from the Windows at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Who Gave Birth to Jefferson’s Negro Baby
Who’s Been Down and Out, and Then Some.
Who’s Cried
Who’s Fought
Who’s Lost
Whose Father was Hagar
Whose Mother was Jezebel
Whose Name is Not Remembered
And Whose Story is Never Told
When
This
STONE
BUTCH
Is
Elected
President
Then
Then We Will Be Feminists.
Re/Visionist 