4.16.2013
false intimations
the world is mine and you're just living in it
the world is hers and you're just living in it
her world is hers and she's just living it
bby didn't i tell you about sand
didn't i whisper sand in yer ear
hard of hear
hard of her
i wasn't going to go here
b/c i have more important places to go
best we forget
lest we forget
that our tender feet need love
that our world is every one(s)
and no one(s)
so we best stop raping it
with false initmations of ownership
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I like how you explore the concept of ownership. I also like the implied "male absence" of ownership. Ownership is an interesting concept; back during my Undergraduate studies, I had this wonderful professor, who exposed me to a book called, "Changes in the Land." The book was a history of New England's forestry and how colonists' conceptions of ownership compared with Native Americans'. It was interesting since the colonists had Native Americans sign documents that granted ownership of certain territories to the British. However, the concept of "owning" land was foreign to Native Americans, and the conception of land ownership vastly changed with the advent of British Enclosure Laws. However, "property" has been a matter that has undergone several important changes in definition; some of which survive today, some of which violate the Geneva Convention: the basic universal human rights of men and women. It may be semantics, but if we want to leave a habitable world for following generations, we as a species need to redefine our values before we destroy our home.
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