[nukkad] Of wivs and witches

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IF YOU MEET WITH A WIFELY WITCH ...

If you come across a woman who is a witchly wife
Who harasses her man and ravages her brood in manner crude
Carps and cavils and plays devil's games all day long every day
And hurts his heart with barbs off her tongue and heated breath
And shames him before the people he loves and holds dear
And rejects whatever his gentle heart will offer to placate
And if you see them in later years when the years are passed
And he is bent and broken and she ill and diseased and breastless
And the children away to far shores, as though out of a hunter's trap ...

Be certain that you know, that your hand has fashioned her
In Kali's image, as the senseless ruthless avenger in blood
As Eve, surrogate and designing and trysting with the serpent
As Lakshmi, who wears red and holds gold and a forever smile
As Medusa with her four score serpents who kill when you kiss
As Lot's wife who looked back and turned to cold stone
As Bibi Hawa in the lands of the Crescent who is half her man
As Boundfoot, the sadly child wife of the inner court Manchus
As Binti, ill born girl child of Araby who must be buried in desert sand
As Bangli from the Ganges bed who is sold in Dubai for dirhams
As Shudri, dark skinned servant girl seen in everyone's homes.

Men created her in despot hour, she has returned as the Witch-wife dour.

Arya.

















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