my body, my choice
By Kitty Anarchy
jesus said?
jesus is dead.
jesus don’t
have what’s
between our legs
our cavities
ovaries
fallopian tubes
uterus
cervix
not just
vagina!
could you
even name
the parts
tucked deep
inside us?
jesus’
mary magdalene
history
erased
resurrected
in us
now who’s
two-faced
men
preach
and give mandates
not to have their
dicks altered
but to do things to us
because jesus said.
but jesus is dead.
Kitty Anarchy is an anarchafeminist, chicana womyn poet and short story writer. She has a background in social work, having earned her MSW from California State University, Long Beach, and listens to KPFK radio. She has seven cats, her favorite being ChiChi, and two dogs named Nibbit and Chato. She is published in Chiron Review, Rabid Oak Journal, Los Angeles Review, Ghost Town Literary Journal, and in anthologies through Arroyo Seco Press and Picture Show Press. Learn more at www.kittyanarchy.com.
“Maria Magdalene” by Jan van Scorel, 1530.