Steal It Back

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I received a wonderful little zine in the mail the other day: Wave 2.5 (“the midpoint between second and third wave feminisms”). It contained the following little poem, apparently anonymously authored, from the 18th century:


The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.

The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
Bu leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine

The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law

The law locks up he man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back


Now tell me, can’t you imagine how great that would sound played by the Subhumans?

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