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the exploding vagina world
By apophenia
(so it's like this)
serendipity
moonlight
all these human constructs
i point to with index finger
mildly accusing
and always argumentative (it is desire)
for this
lack of substantiation (an acquired reading)
and
absence
confirmation of the afraid (like fucking in stark light)
unknown variance
you know, variety in diversity and liberation (extinct but evolving)
i
giggle around this cynical dystopia
the world as one exploding vagina and my soft head, so fragile, somehow
caught inside
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note to reader: this has nothing to do with femininity or gender (the organ
reference is mere existentualism in metaphorical/possible metaphysical
relation, more like birth, sex, shitting, or death and the enclosures that
one associates with these) although i do play on free association, i believe
when speaking of a vagina one need not jump to gender role conclusions,
it is too easy and cheap a resolution to something intended to be an opening
...
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Copyright 2003 Rara-Avis
Published on Monday, December 22, 2003.
Filed under:
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A former member wrote:
if it has existential import, then how could it not have something to do with the vagina as birth canal... and given the connotations therein this is very interesting, beyond provocative, quite controversial....
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On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, AHHH
(187)
wrote:
nice.
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A former member wrote:
i loved the poem a lot, but i think i may have loved the reader's not even more. ;) "i believe when speaking of a vagina one need not jump to gender role conclusions" well stated. ....-samone
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A former member wrote:
'(extinct but evolving)
i giggle around this cynical dystopia'/ existentualistic intensity as revenge from pleasure for observation; unique& splendidly written like an unknown moonset in discoursed beauty...
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On Monday, May 17, 2004, Dancing_Monkey
(1246) wrote:
you changed yourname.. no wonder i couldent find you.. :O) nice one.. and dont make those notes.. they only make it seem somewhat forced :O) thanks for posteing. Monkey
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On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, Exodus
(172) wrote:
the world is over populated.....i liked this alot...great work..
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A former member wrote:
back into the void, was how that finished. this 256 character thing really has its irksom qualities.
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A former member wrote:
it is far too easy to make associations based on gender. Of course, one must acknowledge that gender is a mere social construct that is engraved in us since birth. An excellent metaphor. makes me think of death as a return to birth...going back into th
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
when i saw the title in the new works... i was cringing, fearful of another ensler clone so popular among femi-poets, at least on the local scene, these days
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
not that there's anything wrong with ensler, just the clones tend to lack novelty... anyway, this was all before loading the page & seeing who the author is...
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, A Velvet Tongue
(436) wrote:
there is nothing wrong with ensler, or those she inspires...
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
but the sense i get may not be all that far off, just nowhere near as far along the pole...
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
in debate whether to read into this as a kind of moment of doubt/awareness into gender or more mystical themes... hard to describe... but feels like a vague moment anyway... i think i'd tend towards
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
the kind of feminine spirituality, but largely because you describe it as dystopia... i wouldn't expect that strong a description of strictly gender, i would guess more of the metaphysical
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
foreign and obtuse... sometimes the layers are self-referential to themselves, sometimes not... just that -- a fractal... yeah, that describes it best... fractal
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
it is one of the reasons why i love your works so... depth and layers... sometimes conscious, sometimes not... sometimes i might see things intended, sometimes something completely foreigh
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
even moreso, the concrete picture of the poem... the shape... tantalizing, and out-of-reach... i see it, i feel it, but the language escapes...
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
objective comments... i guess kinda like it feels like everything should all fit into some neat little logical space, but somehow each attempt is somehow lacking
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
dunno... for some reason, am finding it hard to focus on purely objective response, so i feel i am losing some of my own meaning in trying to force
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, MercyRain
(105) wrote:
but i don't see this as any great epiphany either... too much intellectual/logical base rather than emotional... i guess more like intellectual wonder at unexpected similarities
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, Jonas
(720) wrote:
insert a banal comment about the title here ---> which is all that drew me here. was pleasantly surprised by what i found.
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On Monday, December 22, 2003, Griffin
(114) wrote:
its not a porn.... unless im missing something... i probably am, but i like it
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A former member wrote:
That's... well, the title worried me.
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