women's day: a notion (?)
and so we talk of women
one day of the year, celebrate,
and glorify in posters and
rhetoric of dignity, as we
do with ethnicities, or cultures, or
disenfranchised others;
and so we 'elevate' for brief
days, achievements, or power,
or historicities, or any realm of
loftiness to portray and portend
a stature of importance;
and then it's past. and religions,
governments, social hierarchies,
and ingrained cultural mores
resume the journey of status quo;
and in our PC world, we allow
that - talking points as veiled
courage withheld, the fear of
offending the true motivating
force for stasis.
© 2013 R. Burnett Baker
