Virginia Mariposa Dale

The Woman's Declaration of Independence

I hold these truths to be self evident.  All sexes are created equal and have the equal right to the pursuit of happiness. The female sex should not be subjugated or hampered in any way by her biological ability to give birth to her pursuit of happiness.  She should never feel intimidated or compelled by her possession of a uterus regardless of her color, creed or religion to interrupt her life in order to propagate the species.  She should realize that childbirth and child raising are the ultimate acts of submission and may detract from her ability to be a free and independent individual.  If she should choose to marry, she should not be compelled to marry anyone other than her choice regardless of race, color, creed or religion.  Though society may subtly or otherwise try to subjugate either her or her mate into this marriage union, she and he should realize that their expectations of one another will very likely change after such a union, and therefore feel no obligation to enter into a union which might prove deleterious to their relationship and/or freedom.  She on the other hand should never use her body to compel a member of the male sex to support, marry or otherwise be beholden to her through pregnancy or sexual relations.  

She should act independently from all social coercion, whether it be the media, fashion or her family, to compel her directly or indirectly to use her body to the detriment of her sense of self, her soul and her intellect.  If she should weaken and give in to any of the above, she should not feel guilty, but should realize that she may have to be all the more vigilant of that which is her independent self, her true self that she has derived despite the attempts of society, media and family to coerce her to conform to the obvious biological differences of her sex.            

Capitalist Pigs

Capitalism is their fine excuse

for centuries of untold abuse

exploitation of class, caste and mate

these people engender only hate

deep down inside

they are so insecure

that they pig and hoard

the world's vanishing resources

while the polite kind people

endure and endure and endure

Cannibalism

Some of us keep our eyes wide open

most of us keep them tight shut

as we devour ourselves alive

first the verdant forests

then the fossil fuels 

were consumed without so much

as a backward glance

a few disclaimers at whom

we looked askance

Rachel Carson and her Silent Spring

silly girl, a physicist at that,

not even a slight rue of regret  

only the hustle and stampede of feet

the buffalo almost extinct

to ensure the humans got choice pieces

of the planet, their mother, the earth

only the native, the real Americans,

mourned the passing of the Earth

of which they were an integral part