Oh Woman
By Elizabeth Argall
Biography
This?
This came from me?
This black oozing substance
drying congealing
red and flowing
trickling running
down the inside of my leg.
Am I so damned?
to see this red
feel this pain
crippled, cramping lying in bed.
Am I so wrong?
Oh woman
woman in nappies
woman in pain
woman in wrong.
I bleed all month
and once a month it shows
see my pain
feel my pain
trickle through my clothes
and drip
congealing on your tiles.
I lie in the bath
and watch myself float up through the green bubbles of water
filth
bundles of filth floating from me
polluting and soiling
your crisp white dream.
oh woman
I bleed.
- 1999