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firethief  ·  3215 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New footage emerges of aviatrix Amelia Earhart before her doomed final flight

"Aviatrix". What a word.

  I'm going back to Ancient Rome
  to give them back their gendered nouns
  Our weak inflection has no need
  Our culture cares less how you peed
  And while I'm there I'll try to trade
  it for a real semantic aid
  like plural "you"
  but one
  not mired
  in so many associations
  one
  I can hear
  without visions
  of roller-coasting through so many little hills
  out of the dry county
  into the land of drive-through bourbon
  and Waffle House
  Like a bat out of hell
  thirstily descending
  upon the hapless deer
  midway between
  a Pharaoh's pasture
  and the tobacco fields
  where a mother grows ditch-weed
  to smoke desperately
  in a beat-up car
  on the side of the road
  late at night
  with a long-lost friend