Postfeminism

There are two kinds of people, soldiers and women,
as Virginia Woolf said. Both for decoration only

Now that is too kind. It's technical: virgins and wolves.
We have choices now. Two little girls walk intoa bar,

one orders a shirley temple. Shirley Temple's pimp
comes over and says you won't be sorry. She's a fine

piece of work but she don't come cheap. Myself, I'm
in less fear of predators than of walking around

in my mother's body. That's sneaky, that's more
than naked. Let's even it up: you go on fuming in your

gray room. I am voracious alone. Blank and loose,
metallic lingerie. And rare black-tipped cigarettes

in a handmade basket case. Which of us weaves
the world together with a quicker blue of armed

scduction: your war-on-thugs, my body stockings.
Ascetic or carnivore. Men will crack your glaze

even if you leave them before morning. Pigs
ride the sirens in packs. Ah, fiesh, technoflesh,

there are two kinds of people. Hot with mixed
light, drunk with insult. You and me.