Procne Is Among The Slaves
Dedicated to the US Congress
November 23, 2011
there was construction on Mack Avenue
so I got out of the car and walk for a mile
walk for a mile
in my high heels
my crane-like high heels
my crane-like high heels
in my black, black high heels
(chorus: her black, black high heels)
bike guy on my left
food truck on my right
I got out of the car
walk for a mile
in my running shoes,
black Converse running shoes
(chorus: her black Converse running shoes)
no hormone nonsense for my babies...
I took the turkey home,
and gave it to my Sis;
get new gilded shoes on
and going to go to Greektown
(chorus: People Mover Greektown)
Greektown casino takes my money,
and tries to take gold lamé virgin;
blue-heron-like
heels, and my life
to sit like Procne
among the slaves.
(chorus: Procne among the slaves)
I will shoe my feet in rain clouds,
I shall clothe myself in line;
like a phoenix.
we shall rise and fly
away, swallows and
nightingales...
scorn the ruling tyrant owls-
carrion eaters of the night;
we leave them behind,
we high-legged herons!
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notes
Procne and Philomena were sisters and both became married to Tereus, king of Daulis, who symbolizes government.
He was depraved and eventually caused both sisters in their turns great grief. They escaped from his depraved tyranny and were turned into a swallow and a nightingale, while he was turned into an owl, or some stories say a hoopoe bird.
There are many variations on this story.
So was that tyrant Tereus' nasty lust
Changed into Upupa's foul-feeding dust
Lord Brooke; Declination of Monarchie. ( Upupa = hoopoe )
Hoopoe Bird
The poem is a symbolic story of the oppression of the poor and the powerless by bad government and its supporters. It tells how the people will become free from their chains and fly away to freedom. It is about women and poverty.
line = linen
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