FGM

FGM
We used to burn witches in Europe
millions dragged and carted, placating plague and famine
the vulnerable sacrifice ,envied for everything, friendless fair game
we've almost stopped
pretend sadism has gone,drawn aside our hems, not Tyburn entrails
.I 'v still got a touch of Old Testament ,a little of the absolute,a little eye exchange
I'v not evolved beyond rage in defence of the weak,a" quids in" quid pro quo

I would like to strip the witchfinders
fishgawp their dignities ,apply the boot ,and the rack
shave their heads and rape them
assure them that Satan waits ,ready to rend and rip
stoking the sulphur,spitting acid,sharpening cats
then not strangle them first, but let them burn, slowly,screaming for
who exactly?Their Mothers have abandoned, been pulled away
and rthe rest of us can see it, congregating like eyeblack cows
after throwing rotten fruit and stones , buying pies to watch the show
canting of tradition
sacrifice, a very old tradition,still has claws hooked in

In Africa they cut small girls
mutilate the petals of the smallest flowers
It kills and maims, infanticide a little late,twisted birth control
If they survive, infection stalks, health limps away
childbirth tears, ,pleasure's culled
I would like to cut off the.penis
if a man promotes it, start with Elders,Sheiks,and "Men of God"
It would improve masculine chastity after all
and reduce the spread of AIDS
tell them they will come of age by it , understand maturity
tell them it's holy and the word of God
once it was

There is sometimes in England
child abuse we can't speak of ,something that dumbs us up
some torture of the tiny beyond the usual torment
African girls don't count? If they don't starve they get this?
Let's speak of it,own up to the savage here and there
involve reason and feeling ,abandon bargaining and magic

I would give money to make a girl
worth more than a goat
scholarship sanity