Daughters of Lysistrata
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Hear me, O
daughters of Lysistrata.
All you who wish to
end these endless
Peloponnesian wars.

I refuse to assign God a gender!
I refuse to believe there is only one!
Monotheism created most of
the problems in our world
and let chaos reign.

Who said you can’t be a God
if you can’t pee standing up?
Who says you can’t be a God
if you can’t write your name
in the snow or splatter
some wall or pole
like a dog?

Who says?
Who gets to make all the rules?
And why?

The world ran so much better
when the priestesses
were in charge… before
men screwed it all up
with their egos and greed
and their incessant need
to dominate everything
and everyone, thinking
they knew better.

And women just smile
wisely through their
tears and pain,
suffering
until we idiots finally
figure it out.

Modern viragos,
don’t wait!
Don’t wait, ladies,
don’t wait!
Our world can’t afford
to wait.

Ye daughters of Lysistrata
women of Athens,
band together
withhold sex
withhold love
until your men
end their wars…

Emerge and fight
once more, Viragos,
save us from
ourselves...
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