Do you know why I never wrote before?
because everyone told me i was crazy
some said it in jest
others said it seriously
i mean
take medicine, gabriela!
you are clearly bi-polar!
if you knew what i knew
you would not talk to me this way
if you saw what i saw
maybe you would understand
but my reality was mine alone
then i read about Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
what a badass she was
Feminist in the time
of the Holy Inquisition
Who on earth would dare?
Except my beloved, Veronica Franco
(of course!)
Then i read more
and more and more and more
everywhere I saw
the great heroins of time
never obeyed the men
that told them they were crazy
they all met the same walls
i myself, have come up against
So i must be doing
very good indeed!
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