Hobson's Choice

When our choice is 'Jump before we are pushed'
then our direction is very clear, but calling it choice
is somewhat overstating the possibilities.   

'A True Friend

challenges the lies we tell ourselves
but leaves us to find our own realities.'
-Marilyn French (from her epic novel
'The Women's Room')  

It Is Never Us It Is Always Them Others

Absolute misrule invented itself
when, unawares, men found themselves
divided and the centre of a battlefield.
One side was orderly rationality,
which came from the intellect.
The other the combined bodily passions
which proved more than the sum of their parts.
Through sex these passion drove men to war,
first against women and nature,
from whih they thought they were apart,
and then against each other.

The net result the peretual lust
for outright ownership.

At this point the battlefield said of itself
'Let us make women nature and the gods
responcible for our never ending conflict;
let them define our minds and our bodies
and let them be blamed for the battle raging....'.