Nikki Giovanni's poem sucks.

[fflo]

Watch it here.

Yeah, she said "AIDS" out loud in a room with George Bush in it. And she cites a few other tragedies that link tragedy to tragedy in a way I'm sure Americans can't hear enough. But what is this "prevailing" she's talking about? And doesn't the poem just suck?

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

shit! that's a hard one to laugh at. i'm scared of the NLA!

however, i am given to understand that i could probably be counted on to be able to infiltrate the group.

with a good bit of help from wardrobe, that is.

(read: harvey fierstein making robin williams into mrs. doubtfire)

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

but we'd have to cut your hair for that, or at least to fry it in some *attractive* way.

one of the insidious parts of american womanhood is that liberation ends at sensible shoes. so everyone's now free not to wear a skirt and pointy shoes (that liberty is yet to be achiever in the ancestral land), but that doesn't mean one can skip other substantive obligations (such as enforcing niceness and propriety).

[fflo.livejournal.com]

oh, you crack me up. but i thank whichever patriot they tell me to for the shoe thing. in fact---have i ever told you?---my first real fer-serious theory of why i sleep with women has to do with footwear and the now-fading obligations theresurrounding of my gender, and of me specifically as a child.