From “A Pythagorean Traveller” by Patti Smith
Read the full poem at: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161958/a-pythagorean-traveler
Or hear Patti read the full poem: https://youtu.be/8Asdmoo122k?si=iylkHsPE5gEVPvC8
#aprilpoetrycgallenge for #nationalpoetrymonth
13 April - stars
pickBusiness in verse?
Could be worse!
Mesmerizing, stylish, fascinating.
pickStraight men, are you okay? Straight white men, are you specifically okay? This entire book is an ode to the idea that it‘s about damned time we abandon our insistence on a binary view of life, love, sexuality, attraction, and gender.
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Seriously, I feel like this entire book is an argument for abandoning the binary views we have of gender, sexuality, attraction, and life.
#JaneWard #NotGay #gender #sexuality #binary #biological #cultural #gay #straight
So being friends with other men is gay, but this is less gay? Again, I‘m going to need the men to show their work on this, because the math is NOT mathing.
#JaneWard #NotGay #MaybeGay #friendship #mathnotmathing #gay
Reasons given for the acceptable practice of initiating new men into the military using homosexual sex acts. I‘m really going to need them to show their work on that second one. The other two make no sense either, but that one is extra special.
#JaneWard #NotGay #Military #USMilitary #WTF #ShowYourWork
Ward keeps using this concept of a sex terrorist to describe reasons a person may engage in a sex act in a way that is not in accordance with their orientation. Is this a real thing?
#JaneWard #NotGay #sexterrorist
Thank you, Victorian era! I‘m still waiting for a single positive thing you have added to our lives, even beyond sexuality.
#JaneWard #NotGay #normal #heterosexual #homosexual #NormalSexual #VictorianEra #Victorian #reproduction
I enjoyed The Tragedy of Heterosexuality so much yesterday, I decided to read this one today.
#JaneWard #NotGay #audiobook
