Oral History
Dennis Doherty

Tad loosed words 
on the world like a 
mad gooseherd’s 
man hating gaggle 
asplash in wild winged spumes 
and absurdly menacing 
snaps of skin pinching bills.

He said that western civ’s 
been sitting on its head 
in the matter of the sexes, 
that history’s been written 
by muscle—a feeble scribe 
who only knows the myths 
of hunter/fisher lore, when 
the epi-lap of power, always, 
is the smouldering dynamo 
of every woman’s cunt.

To begin with, men are not strong. 
They carry kids like trophies 
when the hard part’s been done. 
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