women who dance without warning
Today's poem:
Bad Women
Bad women
know how to cook
create a miracle in a pot
make something out of chicken feet, pigs feet, cornmeal,
hogmaw, fisheads, fatback, ribs, roots, soy or red beans
Bad women overcome homelessness, violence, addiction and self hate.
Bad women march for equality
education, jobs, childcare, universal health care,
affirmative action and choice.
Bad women flaunt themselves
plump as mangos, skinny as tallow
tall, short
dark as plums and coffee
light as cream and butter
gold as sun on lemons, red as cinnamon
brown as kola.
Bad women don't get old, they get full
full flavored like aged wine
full as harvest's vine
seasoned.
Bad women celebrate themselves,
fingerpopping, hipshaking, big laughed, wisemouthed
hefty thighed, smart thinking women
hatwearing, soft syllabled, eyelash fluttering
tangerine lipstick queens,
small and big breasted
fat kneed, skinny ankled women
who dance without warning
wrap their men or their women around their waist
and dance to the edge of dawn.
Bad women know how to stir
their tears in pots of compassion
add some hot sauce, wasabe, five spices, jalapenos
the salt of memory
stoke the fire of history
simmer in resilience
make it taste like home.
Bad women can burn.
~Janice Mirikitani
from San Francisco Women's Summit Speech, delivered on April 25, 2000
***
coffeeandink clearly articulates a lot of my issues with the current season/direction of Supernatural: Where once the Winchesters were the ordinary people forced to navigate a frightening world in the occasional company of other people, whose emotional dramas were considered as significant philosophically as the Winchesters', now the Winchesters are chosen people, detached from the rest of humanity and granted privileges other people are denied: the resurrection of loved ones, the ability to save themselves and others, the ability to make decisions for themselves and others. (spoilers through 5.17: 99 Problems)
Always with the special fucking destiny. Bah. Sounds like a bad cover band, indeed.
***
Oh, my god, I can't tell if it's our internet fucking up or LJ, because first LJ won't load at all 3/4 of the time, but now other sites are playing up too. WTF? I know Mercury is in retrograde, and I wish technology would stop making me think the theory has some merit!
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This week's theme was '90s music, so if you know me at all, you know I was on that like a cheap suit on a used car salesman. Though I did discover that certain songs appear to have disappeared from both my iTunes and my iPod in one of the many transitions over the years. Hmm... I suppose someday before I finally pitch all my CDs, I will have to finish ripping them into iTunes.
Anyway. 60 songs of the '90s. Possibly I went a little overboard.
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Lithium - Nirvana
Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
Miss World - Hole
Doll Parts - Hole
Asking for It - Hole
Violet - Hole
Celebrity Skin - Hole
Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees
Heaven Beside You - Alice in Chains
Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
Rooster - Alice in Chains
Would - Alice in Chains
I Stay Away - Alice in Chains
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Let Me Drown - Soundgarden
Outshined - Soundgarden
Rusty Cage - Soundgarden
Four Walled World - Temple of the Dog
Pushin Forward Back - Temple of the Dog
Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple of the Dog
Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog
Even Flow - Pearl Jam
Alive - Pearl Jam
Why Go - Pearl Jam
Porch - Pearl Jam
Rearviewmirror - Pearl Jam
Daughter - Pearl Jam
Leash - Pearl Jam
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam
Crazy Mary - Pearl Jam
Corduroy - Pearl Jam
Whipping - Pearl Jam
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Hoover Dam - Sugar
If I Can't Change Your Mind - Sugar
Summer of Drugs - Soul Asylum
Somebody to Shove - Soul Asylum
Thirty-Three - Smashing Pumpkins
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
Rain King - Counting Crows
Round Here - Counting Crows
Anna Begins - Counting Crows
Near Wild Heaven - REM
Losing My Religion - REM
Sweetness Follows - REM
Nightswimming - REM
The Ugly Truth - Matthew Sweet
I've Been Waiting - Matthew Sweet
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
We're the Same - Matthew Sweet
Sick of Myself - Matthew Sweet
Time Capsule - Matthew Sweet
Devil with the Green Eyes - Matthew Sweet
You Make Me Feel Like a Whore - Everclear
Santa Monica - Everclear
The Emperor's New Clothes - Sinead O'Connor
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Let me know if you find something you like.
***
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Bad Women
Bad women
know how to cook
create a miracle in a pot
make something out of chicken feet, pigs feet, cornmeal,
hogmaw, fisheads, fatback, ribs, roots, soy or red beans
Bad women overcome homelessness, violence, addiction and self hate.
Bad women march for equality
education, jobs, childcare, universal health care,
affirmative action and choice.
Bad women flaunt themselves
plump as mangos, skinny as tallow
tall, short
dark as plums and coffee
light as cream and butter
gold as sun on lemons, red as cinnamon
brown as kola.
Bad women don't get old, they get full
full flavored like aged wine
full as harvest's vine
seasoned.
Bad women celebrate themselves,
fingerpopping, hipshaking, big laughed, wisemouthed
hefty thighed, smart thinking women
hatwearing, soft syllabled, eyelash fluttering
tangerine lipstick queens,
small and big breasted
fat kneed, skinny ankled women
who dance without warning
wrap their men or their women around their waist
and dance to the edge of dawn.
Bad women know how to stir
their tears in pots of compassion
add some hot sauce, wasabe, five spices, jalapenos
the salt of memory
stoke the fire of history
simmer in resilience
make it taste like home.
Bad women can burn.
~Janice Mirikitani
from San Francisco Women's Summit Speech, delivered on April 25, 2000
***
coffeeandink clearly articulates a lot of my issues with the current season/direction of Supernatural: Where once the Winchesters were the ordinary people forced to navigate a frightening world in the occasional company of other people, whose emotional dramas were considered as significant philosophically as the Winchesters', now the Winchesters are chosen people, detached from the rest of humanity and granted privileges other people are denied: the resurrection of loved ones, the ability to save themselves and others, the ability to make decisions for themselves and others. (spoilers through 5.17: 99 Problems)
Always with the special fucking destiny. Bah. Sounds like a bad cover band, indeed.
***
Oh, my god, I can't tell if it's our internet fucking up or LJ, because first LJ won't load at all 3/4 of the time, but now other sites are playing up too. WTF? I know Mercury is in retrograde, and I wish technology would stop making me think the theory has some merit!
***
This week's theme was '90s music, so if you know me at all, you know I was on that like a cheap suit on a used car salesman. Though I did discover that certain songs appear to have disappeared from both my iTunes and my iPod in one of the many transitions over the years. Hmm... I suppose someday before I finally pitch all my CDs, I will have to finish ripping them into iTunes.
Anyway. 60 songs of the '90s. Possibly I went a little overboard.
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Lithium - Nirvana
Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
Miss World - Hole
Doll Parts - Hole
Asking for It - Hole
Violet - Hole
Celebrity Skin - Hole
Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees
Heaven Beside You - Alice in Chains
Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
Rooster - Alice in Chains
Would - Alice in Chains
I Stay Away - Alice in Chains
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Let Me Drown - Soundgarden
Outshined - Soundgarden
Rusty Cage - Soundgarden
Four Walled World - Temple of the Dog
Pushin Forward Back - Temple of the Dog
Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple of the Dog
Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog
Even Flow - Pearl Jam
Alive - Pearl Jam
Why Go - Pearl Jam
Porch - Pearl Jam
Rearviewmirror - Pearl Jam
Daughter - Pearl Jam
Leash - Pearl Jam
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam
Crazy Mary - Pearl Jam
Corduroy - Pearl Jam
Whipping - Pearl Jam
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Hoover Dam - Sugar
If I Can't Change Your Mind - Sugar
Summer of Drugs - Soul Asylum
Somebody to Shove - Soul Asylum
Thirty-Three - Smashing Pumpkins
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
Rain King - Counting Crows
Round Here - Counting Crows
Anna Begins - Counting Crows
Near Wild Heaven - REM
Losing My Religion - REM
Sweetness Follows - REM
Nightswimming - REM
The Ugly Truth - Matthew Sweet
I've Been Waiting - Matthew Sweet
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
We're the Same - Matthew Sweet
Sick of Myself - Matthew Sweet
Time Capsule - Matthew Sweet
Devil with the Green Eyes - Matthew Sweet
You Make Me Feel Like a Whore - Everclear
Santa Monica - Everclear
The Emperor's New Clothes - Sinead O'Connor
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Let me know if you find something you like.
***
This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/154107.html.
people have commented there.