for Marilyn Chin
“This gives life to thee” –Shakespeare
Pretty likes to be pretty, adopting the fashions of the city, but beauty gets revenge. The female race as a whole is patient and good. This took its toll when beauty got revenge. The men were conquered after they conquered. Men lost interest in children when beauty took revenge. When beauty took revenge, they no longer asked, who will have children? "Not me, not me," whispered bad poetry and modernity. The men said not a word. Why should they? That would be absurd. No one said a word when beauty took revenge. Women worked at beautiful. They thought men asked, don't we need children? The error of gender. No, it was the world.