Dark Ages
June 10 2008


“The most violent feuds in developing countries
are motivated by women
and pigs.”
So says my daily paper
quoting a British academic on the Dark Ages,
sifting the fertile earth
over mass graves.

Fortunately, we are now fully developed.
And our age is one of constant light
— cameras in our faces,
and billions of blogs
breathless with self-regard.

But I fear he’s confirmed the worst feminist’s belief
of women as men’s property
— as esteemed as pigs,
worth less.
Me, I just see our pretence
and men, the most despised sex.
Because despite living in the future
the conceit of enlightenment
the essential things never change,
men still driven
by conquest and wealth
— still helpless
at a woman’s naked beauty,
still greedy
for the greasy spoils.

But unlike them, we will leave no mass graves,
our wounded consumed by fire
— cities razed,
our final solutions,
dead bodies
bull-dozed and burned.