Portraits
'I have come to claim Marilyn Monroe's Body' by Judy Grahn
I have come to claim Marilyn Monroe’s body
for the sake of my own
dig it up
hand it over
cram it in this paper sack
hubba hubba hubba.
'Just A Smack At Feminism' by Joydeep Sicar
The trouble with arty women is that
if they write prose they think they're Woolf
verse they think they're Plath.
'Akimbo' by Ani DiFranco
What dreams cause me
to abandon my pillow each night?
push away each of them, in fact
since there always seem to be more than one
then wake to aching stiff neck twisted
tits and face smashed against the mattress
legs and arms akimbo
like the high pitched body of a jumper
waiting for her chalk outline
finally at rest.
Yellow Wallpaper
Portrait of a character portrayed in Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
"I kept still and watched the moonlight on that undualting wallpaper untill I felt creepy. The figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out. The colour is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tourturing.
Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over"
