STAND BY YOUR MAN

girls get a raw deal

 it's a mans world

"get over it"

S T A N D  B Y  Y O U R  M A N

  

that's what I told my daughter today

sitting at the bar eating brunch - while she works
at "Insomnia" on Bloor in Toronto - how appropriate

having slept little - she's a soldier
always tired - why?

through the hardware of a bustling crowd
all the modern devices on display

a mixture of truly cosmopolitan men and women
an all so perfect, multi-cultural blend 
obviously very awake and yet, all so pre-occupied

pretending to be normal
appropriate music at just the right volume
this food and drink - good - life is good

looking forward at her in between bites
softening for a moment
in between her ongoing recoil - driven by her craft
staying - on course
it hurts still

she's such a warrior princess

thinking - I was blessed

she's "rising to the occasion" nonetheless

it's a default position - in an ugly tangle

she's grieving the passing of a relationship

and a man who hurt her - her boyfriend of almost a year

that's what I told her - so called "fatherly advice"

shitty deal girl - get with the program

get over it

(from Dad's mouth to mine)

girls are poisoned coming in

at a young age - and I'm part of that

bombarded by weapons of mass construction

victims of our ancestral karma 

all so meticulously choreographed by men

seeds that are planted in misinformation - incubation - masturbation

into numbness - in a routine mission that fails - yet again
 abort - "next" ...

ok, there are always the fruits from a good harvest

and that simple sermon delivered by a good male soul

at Sunday mass - all in good faith 

but it's never enough

women are programmed to give and take

in a pre-meditated ritual

that deceives and destroys

the spirit is compromised and the water becomes contaminated

all part of gods plan?  I'm questioning that tonight

and so dear friends

welcome back to my mishap in the making

 an ongoing exercise in redemption
delivered with hope and optimism

and yet with caution

S T A N D  B Y  Y O U R  M A N

Bonnie and Clyde

it started early - from the banishment of Hildegard Von Bingen

from the church - for writing words
and making music - for speaking up 

to a lost and alone Anne Frank in Amsterdam during WW2
just wondering what is going on here?
the insanity that surrounds the world - what's this?

it surfaces in crimes of passion and broken promises

what happened Daddy?  why does this hurt so much?
why are you so mean?

get over it

self esteem erodes

deviant distractions are devised

in a concocted contingency contagion
bravely bred - in a silent science

returning to our secret place 

a counter-measure that we didn't want to exercise
but have to now ... out of necessity

it continues

the holocaust was just a beginning

in the feminine decomposition - the decay smells rotten - oh btw ...

"do you think i'm pretty?"

rate me on a scale from 1 - 10
on the internet


rate my face

Anne Frank in Amsterdam - 1942

hijabs in high heels - hot
i love Square One - shopping mall - Mississauga
high tension hypocrisy
on any given day

international ramifications
in a history of violence
enough said

ok, it's all about the presentation

it's not about who you are

no, it's not about what you bring to the table

it's not about your feelings, desires or your fears

it's not about your beliefs or your ambitions

none of that

no my dear ... it's all about your faith

in a modern masculine modality that you have invested in
 your destiny - the circus show
 that we are all so entertained by in the media

by the displacement of power, repression and perception
the pasteurized poison
served up clean
and "neat"

in our given - inherited hypocrisy 
embedded in our religion and our philosophy
just "shut - the fuck - up"

just get over it

 you are nothing

you are only worth something ...

if you become something - in my image

and only if you present yourself accordingly

there are rules in place

follow them my dear, and you will be rewarded

break the rules? - and you will be punished

that's how it works

bend over ... you're going to like this

Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo

just do as I say and it will be ok

i know you want it - i know you want to be ah ... loved

so just  - do this

get the girl

"then after you're finished?  we need a hammer
and garbage bags - Home Depot - for the wreckage
you're part of this now"

just do as you're told

 and it will all be ok - trust me

girls are afraid - and so they should be!

of being cast aside by Daddy - yep - how it works

and Mommy who follows Daddy 

because she's told to

punishment hurts

none of us wants that - and yet, here we go again

it's just another night 
in relapse

get me off

Tori Stafford, Michael Rafferty and Terri-Lynn Mclintic

 

just lure her into the car

after school

I want her young - and pretty - 
na, you don't have it in you

to actually do this - to bring me what I want

you don't have the guts

so just do it - bring me what I want
or you don't get that special surprise that I promised you

this happened in my hometown - Woodstock

in 2009 - I lived there as a kid

clueless

Tori was raped and murdered
by a ruptured couple

for those who have little girls

just love them

tell them that they are special and that they are loved

hold them like they are our only hope

for a better world and a better future

for our girls


he doesn't love you - the same way
that you love him

S T A N D  B Y  Y O U R  M A N





"sometimes its hard to be a woman
giving all your love to just one man"

dedicated to Tori Stafford - 2001 - 2009

Woodstock Ontario