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(p.s. drag me!!!!!)
Seetha’s Story
I.
FROM THE ground
came Seetha, psychedelic and all
Celestial hoops of cyclical divinity & a bleeding, watching orb
resting on her T. Puckered lips, glossed, from the sliminess of man
or the womb of earth & One crown
swallowing her brain
vacant eyes
a hand held out, Stop.
Hidden between her legs
a lotus, plucked to baldness.
II.
आच्छाद्योदरमूरुभ्यां बाहुभ्यां च पयोधरौ उपविष्टा विशालाक्षी रुदन्ती वरवर्णिन
[the wide eyed Seetha/with excellent color/covering/stomach/with thighs/breasts/with hands/sat down/crying]
from Valmiki’s Ramayana (Book V Chapter 19)
III.
Blue hands
unweave my sari, Dropped to the
floor & then my first sin: Rama
IV.
the darling is a scintillating Seetha,
tap tap tap Odissi in the jungle with
forcedmudras, bones cracking,
keep dancing, legs bending
Deer, gold, dazzling, vibrations of seduction
a material crime to women indeed
from the meatiness of night, the
murmurings of bark
How can Ms. Sleeping Beauty wake up?
Thrashing in sheets, awake, I’M AWAKE
Furious venom
in the animal
but she ate the apple (anyhow)
& the Sitayanam progressed…
there are waters so clear they
could swallow you whole,
just as Seetha’s heart pure with candidacy
intent
it could demolish our villain,
our Ravana but
A woman asserting her own power isn’t virtuous
paralyzed on her belly croaking I knew I knew
V.
abla naari is my name
(helpless woman)
VI.
Alas! My husband! With
Rama I am complete,
with Rama I am full of fire
for the love of life
for the love of my life
I throw myself into the pyre
a helpless woman in His eyes,
My Rama, my
betrayer. No longer wants Seetha
but the flames cannot lie
the flames cannot deny
the pure idiocracy in Seetha’s veins.
VII.
O ma,
Bhūmi if you truly are
envelop me once again into the roots of
earth
where I can sob all hours
my tears flow down my withered breasts
Eat my pureness, chew my sadness
and throw up what’s left
THE IDEAL Woman.
FROM THE ground
came Seetha, psychedelic and all
Celestial hoops of cyclical divinity & a bleeding, watching orb
resting on her T. Puckered lips, glossed, from the sliminess of man
or the womb of earth & One crown
swallowing her brain
vacant eyes
a hand held out, Stop.
Hidden between her legs
a lotus, plucked to baldness.
II.
आच्छाद्योदरमूरुभ्यां बाहुभ्यां च पयोधरौ उपविष्टा विशालाक्षी रुदन्ती वरवर्णिन
[the wide eyed Seetha/with excellent color/covering/stomach/with thighs/breasts/with hands/sat down/crying]
from Valmiki’s Ramayana (Book V Chapter 19)
III.
Blue hands
unweave my sari, Dropped to the
floor & then my first sin: Rama
IV.
the darling is a scintillating Seetha,
tap tap tap Odissi in the jungle with
forcedmudras, bones cracking,
keep dancing, legs bending
Deer, gold, dazzling, vibrations of seduction
a material crime to women indeed
from the meatiness of night, the
murmurings of bark
How can Ms. Sleeping Beauty wake up?
Thrashing in sheets, awake, I’M AWAKE
Furious venom
in the animal
but she ate the apple (anyhow)
& the Sitayanam progressed…
there are waters so clear they
could swallow you whole,
just as Seetha’s heart pure with candidacy
intent
it could demolish our villain,
our Ravana but
A woman asserting her own power isn’t virtuous
paralyzed on her belly croaking I knew I knew
V.
abla naari is my name
(helpless woman)
VI.
Alas! My husband! With
Rama I am complete,
with Rama I am full of fire
for the love of life
for the love of my life
I throw myself into the pyre
a helpless woman in His eyes,
My Rama, my
betrayer. No longer wants Seetha
but the flames cannot lie
the flames cannot deny
the pure idiocracy in Seetha’s veins.
VII.
O ma,
Bhūmi if you truly are
envelop me once again into the roots of
earth
where I can sob all hours
my tears flow down my withered breasts
Eat my pureness, chew my sadness
and throw up what’s left
THE IDEAL Woman.