The End of Herstories
It used to be called senility
now Alzheimer’s, or dementia
but in Agatha’s case I’d choose
primary progressive aphasia
in which her language capabilities
slowly and progressively became
impaired as the author of more
than eighty novels lost the ability
to swim in the Alphabet Soup.
Postmortem textual analysis
suggests her vocabulary decreased
by fifteen to thirty percent.
And was her last mystery
“Elephants Can Remember”
an explanation or
a cry for help?
If life's sacred meaning
is found,
or perhaps never even lost,
through active multicultural regenerativity,
I hope love's secular purpose
might find me,
and us,
through Earth-responsive recreation,
Like white patriarchal privilege
recalling
compelling matriarchal herstories
of dualdark degenerativity,
Like healthy green spring
is to winter wealthy snow.
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