Pansies (Lawrence)/Female Coercion
FEMALE COERCION
If men only fought outwards into the world
women might be devoted and gentle.
The fight's got to go in some direction.
women might be devoted and gentle.
The fight's got to go in some direction.
But when men turn Willy wet-legs
women start in to make changes;
only instead of changing things that might be changed
they want to change the man himself
and turn the poor silk glove into a lusty sow's ear.
And the poor Willy wet-legs, the soft silk gloves
how they hate the women's efforts to turn them
into sow's ears!
women start in to make changes;
only instead of changing things that might be changed
they want to change the man himself
and turn the poor silk glove into a lusty sow's ear.
And the poor Willy wet-legs, the soft silk gloves
how they hate the women's efforts to turn them
into sow's ears!
The modern Circe-dom!