Sunday, March 21, 2010

Good News


Nothing is permanent.

1 comment:

Dr. Mike said...

Nothing

Don't mistake your nothing
For nothing. It is not the small

Pear held by withered hands
Of an old woman who has been

Beaten and shouted down for
Daring to speak her mind. Her

Nothing weighs more than yours,
Because she has no hope that the law

Can protect her, or that her words
Can roost in any bookseller's shop

To hearten or endear other
Younger women in the struggle

To breathe behind burkas and walls.
Perfumed and ripe for burial.

Dr. Mike
[Disposable Poem March 21,2010]