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12:02 PM, DECEMBER 26, 2007
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Baby Girl
Issues:  childrens rights, sexism
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You wear Brother’s clothes
Sensible and warm
You hear kind words of
Acceptance and love

You don’t know
About the dresses
The chemicals people will want you to wear
On your nails
On your face
On your hair.

Already the separation
Brother and sister
Dresses and bows
In the dead of winter.

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Meee_thumb DEC 31, 2007
Alec Henderson

What a beautiful child!
Yours reminds of a poem by the 19th century Zen poet Ryokan:




With no mind the flower attracts the butterfly
With no mind the butterfly reaches the flower




The flower doesn’t know
Neither does the butterfly




No knowing, not knowing
Each fulfilling the dance of the universe
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