THE CRITICISM OF BACHELORS AND THE COMPOSITION OF MAIDENS

I'm not a Marxist-feminist.
Wasn't Marx a male?
I'm just a lexicographist,
My business - to prevail.

I'm tired of undressed sexuality,
Weary of repressed spirituality.
Revolution is the opiate of the Lyceum,
But revelation still opens the Museum.

My major is musing.
My minor is theory.
Home is my economy.
Thoreau, can you hear me?

(Tucson, Arizona, Spring 1990)