Simone de Beauvoir Sends Trump a Sext

//Simone de Beauvoir Sends Trump a Sext

Simone de Beauvoir Sends Trump a Sext

By Sandra L. Faulkner

 

“A man is in the right in being a man.”

I’m going to pull you by the power tie
and drag you through the rooms of my mind
like a man        beg me            for the boot in your face
my foot imprint eye-black smudged on your cheeks

“and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him.”

Then, I will top you    like a cork-stopper
screw the cap on tight   tighter than your golf grip
small balls streaming past a wet bunker
scoring high    on the way      to your hole in one

“And she is simply what man decrees; thus she is called ‘the sex.’”

I will   be the bottom of your form
sign my name in permanent blood
as you like it    and should like it
my stain          a sheet of satin in your drawer

“For him she is sex—absolute sex, no less.”

Let me talk you all night
grab your         midnight part
until we      see the wee           hour sparks
and glisten       in the TV light

“He is the Subject, he is the Absolute—she is the Other.”

I’m going to    punt and peel   the layers
push my fingers          into your dough
the middle of us like a big-bigger pie
my box            of plums tucked inside my pants

 


Sandra L. Faulkner is Professor of Communication and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her poetry has appeared in Literary MamaIthaca LitGulf Streamdamselfly and elsewhere. She knits, runs, and writes poetry about her feminist, middle-aged rage in NW Ohio with her partner, their warrior girl, and two rescue mutts. Read more at https://bgsu.academia.edu/SandraFaulkner.

Photo credit: “Desire” by Sandra L. Faulkner ©2018

By | 2019-02-06T09:41:45-08:00 February 7th, 2019|Categories: Issue 80: 07 February 2019|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

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