every woman is so
exquisitely trained
to be a whore.
"if a man can get the milk for free,
 why then should he buy the cow?"
this my mother said to me,
and this i tell all mothers now!

your daughters are not cattle nor
is their sexuality
a trick or trap or chip to barter with
nor other artifice.
nor are their bodies wonderlands
for men at night
to wander in.
thell them they are goddesses!
tell them "live alone!"

every woman's been so
fully trained to
be a slave.
from that first breath until
the time they're laid within
the very grave.

our mothers modeled servitude,
but we must teach our daughters how
to doff the shackles put on them,
the lies by which their minds are bound,
and hands well-taught to pleasure men
must learn to please themselves instead,
to build the world to other laws
and unto visions more sublime!
tell them to consider this:
that they are truly goddesses.