Winner of FemFlash 2011
It's time to grab a coffee or a china cup's worth of fine tea, settle down in a horsehair-padded armchair and read the ten shortlisted entries for FEMINIST FLASH 2011. Feminist poetry and flash fiction at its finest.
MALE PRIVILEGE
by C. Askew
Give me the shovel.
Give me the tattoo gun's kiss on my skin.
Give me the hard day's work.
Give me the graveyard shift.
Give me the white van.
Give me lager and the night.
Give me the warship and the race car.
Give me the walk home alone.
Give me the chainsaw.
Give me the streetlit alleyway.
Give me the roadmap's cryptic veins.
Give me the fearless midnight park.
Give me the swagger.
Give me the paycheque.
Give me the wet-dream and the punch-up.
Give me James Bond and Action Man.
Give me walls to build in the baking sun.
Give me the engine.
Give me the motherboard.
Give me the budget and the Bible.
Give me strength.
Give me the steel-toe-capped boots.
Give me brass knuckles and a big dog.
Now look at me. Now tell me I can't.
First appeared here in Girl Poems.
Read winning/shortlisted entries for FEMFLASH 2011:
- Winner: MALE PRIVILEGE by C. Askew
- Runner-up: HEELS by A. L. Michael
- Runner-up: ADVICE TO HORROR GIRL VICTIMS by K. Logan
- LOCAL COUPLE DISMAYED OVER LACK OF PINK PEGS by K. Southerly
- GEOFF by S. Williams
- FEMINISM ISN'T JUST A MOVEMENT by M. Reimers
- IN THE BEGINNING by K. Taylor
- THE PREVENTION OF SASQUATCH by A. Readman
- WHERE THE NURSES DRINK by L. May
- MY FEMINIST HUSBAND by R. Venkatarayan
