Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Spwm day 2 female perspective

Poem from pov of female heroine real or mythological or fictional

Seetha

Aung san su kyi

If you had said the word
I would have left
You coward
Beastly coward
You sent your brother to leave me
Sita talks to draupadi

You... maiden of the Mahabharata
Me.. maiden of the Ramayana

Sita to Draupadi
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If i were you...
I would have left all five of them
I would have burnt the village with the fire in my eyes
Like Kannagi burnt Madhurai
Only i would have started with that wastrel gambler who gambled you together with your house
Then the brute who called you alms
Then the mother... pure mother of five whose word once given can't be taken back but whose son could be given away in a basket on a river
Then the other big one too big to go against his brother
And the twins so nondescript I can't recall them except that their names rhymes 

Ahem

Yes

I'm the afore mentioned Kannagi

Oh hi. Welcome.

I burnt Madurai. I should have burnt him first. Left me for a dancer Madhavi

Ahem

Yes

I am the afore mentioned dancer.. madhavi.

I used to hate you
It's not your fault
Baby born among the prostitutes
What choice did you have
You spoke back to him once
And he came running to me

I was tired of him kannagi
Such a whiner
I kicked him back to you
A Kovalan shaped ball
With not much balls

But you seetha... chips in Draupadi

Yes

If i were you
I would have left rama
Before he left you
Nine months pregnant with twins
In the forest
You who stayed true to him when Ravana desired you
For what a dhoby said
He was too good for you

Today we, Draupadi, Seetha, Kannagi &
Madhavi.. heroines of the great Indian epics protest.
Against the male writers who wrote our stories
Impinging their values and dreams of us in books
Otherwise fantastic stories
But for the fate of us women
We protest
Against these epic portrayals of epic feminity
Demure before husbands
Fierce before people to protect husband's



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