Saint Jezebel

"Saint Jezebel" appeared at BONE & INK in August 2019. BONE & INK is gone, so putting it up here. Hope you enjoy!

Saint Jezebel

As if I had to teach a man to fuck!

You mean to do it well—which yes of course

the pleasure was all mine—I got the luck

of being female in a book the source

of which is patriarchy though what hurts

is being hated by other women

for painting my face + wearing short skirts

but did you know I had more power then?

They say I starved the so-called prophets of

a certain faith—this during a famine!

For that

                + God / they killed my family

+ this is what religion does with love:

(I know this isn't a revelation)

turns women into whores—

                                                they hate us free