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Ain't I A Woman? newspapers, June 1970-July 1971
1970-11-20 "Ain't I a Woman?" Page 12
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1 my heart is the echo of a scream projected into silence- locking itself in because the need to touch can become the need to die there are too many choices. 11 words don't answer questions like why people breathe, talk, touch like why i sometimes find i cant move- words can't answer pain 111 i haven't been able to touch (trust) a woman for a long time. the sickness has gone that far before i begin to locate the pain. ain't not antibiotics for this, babe and the doctor just skipped town with your fears & some stranger's in control of your needs. IV I've never made love to a woman. I've made love to and been fucked by a lot of men but right now I'm too horney to make love to anyone & 'm too lonely to love myself. Schizophrenic Poem Now what shall I do with such a feeling? alone desterted unloved I can cry: tears of hurt and self-hate: cartharsis I can run away: it's worked before I can talk; but it won't help A poem or..... Don't worry: I won't possess you I won't stifle your love for other women It's counter revolutionary,..... jealousy Subversive to sisterhood (loving women) Like the rich-- Their guts won't agree to sharing Like men-- Their guts won't give up their privileges We must take them if they are to be ours And so with our love I so jealously hold: it must be taken. Taken by the sisters to be shared--it's not vicious But my stomach can't agree: I've been trained to hoard everything thats important: survival in America.. It's political and understandable? My stomach will have to learn--adjust Sisterhood is post-revolutionary behavior now Its pain and struggle and beauty together Someday I'll see the other side-- your side. I'm not reaching out and giving love to sisters as you are-- Lack of confidence, fear of hassles, who knows why, But now I must deal with you and your sisterhood I can struggle as long as you and the sisters understand and care. [photo] Page 12 Volume 1 No. 9 Ain't I?
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1 my heart is the echo of a scream projected into silence- locking itself in because the need to touch can become the need to die there are too many choices. 11 words don't answer questions like why people breathe, talk, touch like why i sometimes find i cant move- words can't answer pain 111 i haven't been able to touch (trust) a woman for a long time. the sickness has gone that far before i begin to locate the pain. ain't not antibiotics for this, babe and the doctor just skipped town with your fears & some stranger's in control of your needs. IV I've never made love to a woman. I've made love to and been fucked by a lot of men but right now I'm too horney to make love to anyone & 'm too lonely to love myself. Schizophrenic Poem Now what shall I do with such a feeling? alone desterted unloved I can cry: tears of hurt and self-hate: cartharsis I can run away: it's worked before I can talk; but it won't help A poem or..... Don't worry: I won't possess you I won't stifle your love for other women It's counter revolutionary,..... jealousy Subversive to sisterhood (loving women) Like the rich-- Their guts won't agree to sharing Like men-- Their guts won't give up their privileges We must take them if they are to be ours And so with our love I so jealously hold: it must be taken. Taken by the sisters to be shared--it's not vicious But my stomach can't agree: I've been trained to hoard everything thats important: survival in America.. It's political and understandable? My stomach will have to learn--adjust Sisterhood is post-revolutionary behavior now Its pain and struggle and beauty together Someday I'll see the other side-- your side. I'm not reaching out and giving love to sisters as you are-- Lack of confidence, fear of hassles, who knows why, But now I must deal with you and your sisterhood I can struggle as long as you and the sisters understand and care. [photo] Page 12 Volume 1 No. 9 Ain't I?
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