Killing The Cat Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Killing the cat

Times
Cultures
Languages
And…and…and
Have own expressions.

“Kill the cat on wedding night.”

A patriarchal expression of time
For grooms in Iran;
Newly husbands
Fathers to become
Teaching how be a man,
And how to run a family found.

Binary
Man, woman

Deconstruction is not changing master, slave
Derrida said: “find the mistake.”

Feminism in Iran
Bride and groom replaced.

Cat must be killed
Matriarch not patriarch
“Show who the true boss is.”

Hey
Insult is insult
Regardless of the
Oppressor, oppressed

When killing is the base
With it die trunk, branches
And the fruits, not yet ripened.
Man leaves
Woman grieves
Walls remain alone.
No ceiling and no roof
Cold, sad, sick and boring.