Dour, desiccated old men
shrivelled with age and bitter
that life is fast ebbing, their beards
grown piously long and broad
issue edicts meant to tame the
wild nature of beguilingly beautiful
young women portraying them as
eager to bewitch men with their
absent morals when it is men whom
the Eternal One has equipped to
use women as breeding stock in a
firm harness of social control
erasing their humanity in dark
enveloping shrouds and policing
their public appearances with public
morality guardians. Young and old
women reject morality's straitjackets
and with pride and joy in life
despite the prejudice of misogyny
display themselves as free as nature
intended, paying the ultimate price
for a moment of liberty, their lethal
punishment inciting others to deny and
defy a totalitarian ideology of death.
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