Recycled Woman/ Happy March 8 …

The recycled woman 
Has a heart filled with fumigated love
All her dreams will be reborn again
…

Recycled Woman

Some say she is haunted 
And never belongs to one city
A woman with the look of graveyards
And a new kind of temper
They don’t know how she was born
Her birth certificate is an open page with no notes on the birth
But a description about her
Hands: from bodies collected in the Caspian Sea
Legs: of bones from a famine in Africa
Hair: each strand comes from the hair of women in burka
Eyeballs: from expectant eyes, always waiting.
Appended: this woman has multi-metal teeth
With plastic nails and breasts of fire
And dreams that will last 

The recycled woman 
Has a heart filled with fumigated love
All her dreams will be reborn again
Her voice is load as she sings in a language unknown to men
Where women need to fight to be heard 
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poem and painting by: Mahnaz Badihian