lördag 18 juni 2011

By Nicole Blackman

One day I´ll give birth to a tiny baby girl
and when she´s born she´ll scream
an I´ll tell her to never stop

I will kiss her before I lay her down at night
and will tell her a story so she knows how it is 
and how it must be for her to survive

I´ll tell her to set things on fire
and keep them burning
I´ll tell her that fire will not consume her, 
that she must use it

I´ll tell that people must earn the right to use her nickname,
that forced intimacy is an ugly thing

I´ll help her to see that she will not find god 
or salvation in a dark brick building
built by dead men

I´ll make sure she always carries a pen
so she can take down the evidence.
If she has no paper, 
I´ll tell her to write everything down with her tongue,
write it on her thighs

I´ll make her keep reinventing herself and run fast.
Ill teach her to write her manifestos on cocktailnapkins
I´ll say she should make men lick her ambition.
I´ll make her understand that she is worth more
with her clothes on.
I´ll teach her to talk hard

I´ll tell her that when the words come too fast
and she has no use for a penthat she must quit her job,
run out of the house in her bathrobe,
leave the door open.
I´ll tell her to follow the words.

The will try to make her stay.
Comfort her, let her sleep, bathe her in a television blue glow.
I will cut her hair, tell her to light the house on fire,
kill the kittens
When nothing is there
nothing will keep her
and she is not to be kept

I´ll say that everything she has done seen spoken
has brought her to the here this now.
This is no time for tenderness, no time to stand, waiting for them to find her.
There are nations within her skin
Queendoms come without keys you can carry

I´ll teach her that she has an army inside her that can save her life.
I´ll teach her to be whole, to be holy.
I´ll tell her how to live,
to be so much that she doesn´t even need me anymore
I´ll teach her to go quickly and never come back.
Things get broken fast here

I will make her stronger than I ever was.

(2006 is an excellent year to disappear)

I will not let them destroy her life the way they destroyed mine

I´ll tell her to never forget what they did to you
And never let them know you remember


I´ll tell her to never forget what they did to you
And never let them know you remember

I´ll tell her to never forget what they did to you
And never let them know you remember...



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