Stupid Alphabet

When literacy leapt into being
its alphabet all in a neat row
ONE
WORD
AFTER
ANOTHER
MARCHING
On
flat
horizontal
e v e r y l e t t e r
m
e
a
n
i

n
g
l

e
s

s


unto itself
a switch flipped
in the human brain
cultivating
linear thought (one word marching after another)
dialectic reasoning
it is THIS and it is NOT THAT
the logical
masculine
brain


Consider instead,
when you look at an image
and see everything all at once

swirling around in all directions
your brain connecting so much
in a single sweep of your eyes
Consider a picture

and all that it implies
the concrete moment
the holistic instant
the connected synapses of tiny glimpses synthesized into a whole

the feminine
multi-track
nurturing mind.



With our brains coded in the alphabet
from birth
and heavily trained in dialectic logic
is it any wonder that women
and holistic thought
are less respected
than the linear masculine?



It hurts my head to think about this too much.
I want to conceive of a feminine logic
but my brain
marches
in
straight
lines
and all my thoughts
are spelled out
in the alphabet.