Mandeville Sisters
Fuzzy said Johnny the girls poem insults Mandeville women.
I said let me try to do better.
Start with the punch line.
Sisterhood is powerful.
That's not a cliche' around here, you don't hear it every day.
Never from a man, unless he's kind of joking.
I'm not kind of joking.
That's more than just a plug for my Sisterhood novel about kinky dikes.
I make formal confession in public I am in love
with the young ladies of this town.
In a collective sense, that's probably legal.
That way, it's favorable to me that you stay together.
So I nudge your consciousness of Womanhood when I can.
I think I mentioned being a political activist.
But we who have survived so long in the underground
are pretty sneaky characters.
I hide my feminism behind a lascivious leer.
I'll have the dirty-old-man thing down perfect
if I ever grow up.
Tell me you have perhaps a tiny suspicion of me
because my intentions aren't quite clear.
Hey, are yours? Whose are?
Think of all the people you know
whose intentions are quite clear.
Do you really want to spend your time with those people?
We can't learn from the predictable, can we?
I would like for you to continue to love your sisters.
That's simple for you to do,
but I see it as revolutionary love
so it makes me feel happy and successful.
Humor me.
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