why do you need me to be a Woman?

if you go mining in my vagina,

it’s not what you find that will blind you.

i hold no knives.

the surprise is what you won’t find—

i stow no eggs waiting to become lives.

surprise: you won’t mind.

my vagina still shines.

There is a fire in the City of Peace.

א

I am the fire in the City of Peace.

I am bent on indiscriminate destruction.

All those who fight have ravaged the City.

In fighting, they destroy what they fight for.

I shall bring their efforts to their honest conclusion.

The City shall die.

I am the fire in the City of Peace.

ב

I am the fire in the City of Peace.

I know what brings together people who are at each other’s throats.

Mutual disaster, caused by neither side, brings together people who are at each other’s throats.

In fighting me, they shall stop fighting each other.

The city shall be saved.

I am the fire in the City of Peace.

ג

I am the Fire in the City of Peace.

Fight me not, lest ye not see Me for Me.

Thou shalt see Me.

I, the Lord your God, am the City of Peace.

I am the Fire in the City of Peace.

ד

I am the City of Peace.

The fire purifies my shame.

My shame is not my scream of pleasure in the forbidden.

My shame is my feigned scream of pleasure in the permitted.

I am the City of Peace.

ה

I am the City, purified by the Fire which is God.

Why then cannot I stop also being the Firefighter?

Why can't I stop fighting the fire in the City of Peace?