Perpetuation of the Species

 

From the primary-grade little girls who

cluster and whisper in confidant groups

at recess in the schoolyard warning one

another off the trust of the neighbourhood

man who shuffles along the streets on the

lookout for the naive promising them candy

treats if they're 'nice' to him, to divulging

amongst one another touch-and-go events

their parents would never suspect their little

girls had any notion of, to the 'uncle' who

gives gifts to trusting nieces, girls are early

primed to their victim roles among males of

their acquaintance and how inconvenient it

can be to be trapped in a bathroom with a

familiar of whom no word of revelatory 

tattle could be countenanced, on to the

opportunistic gropes on public transit no

one wants to advertise because it is girls and

women on whom shame falls when they

become victims of male tampering. The hot

passions of males opposed to the curiosity 

and intimacy-seeking emotional females

the battle of the sexes serves nature's scheme

of survival. It becomes a wonder that girls

grown to womanhood retain their emotional 

attachment to dreams of love and an adoring

male, and those whose dreams are fulfilled

have the fortune to discover among them the

presence of males whose visions match theirs.