They're sent by the devil to tempt blameless
men's fleshly desires; she-devils themselves
who must be ordered to deport themselves
as modest, unassuming chattels destined
for maternal servitude relegated to kitchen
and bedroom, unfit for public display lest
their corrupting influence roil the social
order subject to the will of the Almighty
whose absolutism only the Ayatollahs
are given sacred license to interpret else
sins proliferate as the order of sanctimony
is challenged by schoolgirls taunting and
testing the will of their Supreme Leader
whose orders are as infallible as his link to
a jealous god who will bear no alternatives.
Hovering anxiously, fruitlessly admonishing their
daughters, pleading for their forgiveness
chadors flapping as they herd the girls away
from the thrashing of the morality police
malevolent vision of arrest, torture, mutilation
and death fails to penetrate the awareness of
schoolgirls defiant against the monsters who
reign upon whose orders the girls' role models
mocking the clergy and demanding their rights
suddenly die in custody through the heavenly
intervention of heart attacks muting their aims.
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