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revolutionaries Part I: joan of arc

"Life is war."

-Oriana Fallaci, as quoted by diamanda Galas, as quoted by Andrea Juno in Angry Women

joan of arc

Soldier, pinchu macha

(little masculine

bitch),

some god or other

whispered

in your perfect ear

while you held your sword to your breast

like a crucifix.

The red at our sedate litte mass

is the red of your bloodshed,

is the red of the flames

rising up to sear your skin, of what was once perfect

slicing and turning in upon itself

lit up like candles into a blood sacrifice

to a million petty, frightened consciences.

We're much craftier now, in this modern

age, much more cost-effective

in our methods of punishing

those whose foreign, incomprehensible gods give a light

to their eyes that our eyes can only squint at.

We convince them-- subtly, even

subliminally--

that they want to die

and we leave the burning up to them

with a gallon of gasoline

and a match to be struck

in a parent's garage

or an empty high school swimming pool.

-Providence, RI 1998

"I saw her wince

I saw her cry

I saw the glory in her eye

I myself long for love and life

but must it come so cruel

and oh so bright"

-Leonard Cohen, from "Joan of Arc" on Songs of love and Hate

"Joan of Arc was a trans-gendered warror!"-grafitti at RISD

I'd like to thank the sweetest ivy League sex-positive militant dyke I've ever known (who was friends with george harrison's son!) for introducing me to the phrase "pinchu macha"

much love to those who need it (and even a little to those who don't),

Elizabeth

7:29 a.m. - 2003-05-19

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