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Rosie Riveter, Harry Homemaker

Don Pesavento

Every batman has his robin,
every batgirl her raven,
featherless friends of feathered gender benders,
animus-anima flocking together;

Mr. Mom, Mrs. Dad
who used to wear the family pants,
now wears a pantsuit or skirt;
police women, female doctors,

Mr. Secretary, Madam President,
sandled, XY,
senator of ancient Rome,
now heeled, XX,
speaker of the House,
lipsticked beneath the Capital Dome,

wary male chauvinsts, finding it scary,
dating weapons-trained gals from the military;
neo-suffragettes who don’t forget
the bold things their suffering sisters did;

feminists who find it hard to believe
Adam’s-rib Eve fait accompli;
history presumably written by a man,
rendered differently by a woman’s hand;

fierce hunter-gatherers, subdued by lover-nesters,
Lysistrata-leveraging to get what their after;

where once Romeo’s brother played Juliet,
and Flip Wilson, Geraldine,
George Sand, Fiona MacLeod, now
Mary Martin’s Peter Pan, and
Jeremy Iron’s M. Butterfly

Mother Russia, Father Germany,
card-sharp Matriarchal societies,
trumping Patriarchal hierarchies,

Evita, Elizabeth, Juan and Henry VIII,
chess-game opposed,
where Queen always checkmates King
Machismo metros, machisma Amazons,
masculine body-language women,
out shouting effeminate-voiced men,

chivalry is dead

guys who dare not condescend
to open a door for them,
as girls can do it just fine themselves;

ladies, who used to sip Pink Squirrels,
Grasshoppers, Tom Collins, Amaretto Stone Sours,
7-7’s, Gin and Tonics, Vodka Gimlets, and Chardonnays,

replaced by Barr-body, drinking women
who prefer beer, over Rum and Coke,
and tattooed, feral ones, smoking menthol slims,
who deign to feign indifference to its significance.

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