some women I know often complain
that men are incapable of seeing them in any other light except
in the fashion of ex-girlfriends, wives and whores
I add “and mothers, and daughters, and aunts”
they say that we like to label our commodities
I tell them its just a convenient system to sort them out
to figure out which one goes where
and ultimately, to put them to good use
just a good and efficient system, nothing personal
apparently, “pig” is an appropriate epithet for me
who is putting labels now?
A heathen poet 