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I only rent, a nomad - When I was a kid, the end of the street turned into bush - We lost hours there - As an adult, I returned to that place - Now a new estate - Red brick structures on land totally cleared - Progress? Surely not - Why didn't they leave some trees? Did they have to clear the surface so they may draw their new maps?
To find the analogy between mowing and clippering ones hair - is not too difficult - Both represent a clearing of the surface - Though one, (namely mowing) conforms, whereas the other, (a woman clippering her own hair off) deviates - Perhaps not so much now as then - It's the 'then' that requires another look -
Hair - Woman's crowning glory - A sign of her femininity, her feminine vanity - To be robbed of this was nothing less than total humiliation, or a sign of humility - In God's service - Otherwise, a mark of denigration reserved for criminals, or hysterics
Defeminised - Androgynous - Neutered
Joan of Arc cut her own hair off - One of her crimes..... They wanted to do it as part of her torture - They were too late - She defied convention - Neither a free flowing, haired whore, nor bound haired housewife -
Now, today - how will I be colonised for this act? Perceived as degenerate, banal, trendy? Too bad - Your coding does not make me - Only makes me safe on your terms - "There are names for women like you."
Described - Inscribed - Located - Mapped -
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