Envy

 

By Catherine Sawers

 

 

 

Have you ever met a woman
Who wishes she was a man
And had her own member
That she could give a special name
Except in certain cases
Freud’s penis envy has no basis
A theory made in bad faith
By observing hysterical patients.
What could be more intimidating
Than a woman whose mind is germinating
It’s bad enough she can make a new person
Just by eating, breathing and screwing
Womb envy is what Freud suffered
But these feelings he quickly smothered
He’d be the laughingstock of Vienna
If one word of this he had muttered.

 

 

 

 

 

July 2012

Author: Catherine Sawers
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Catherine Sawers was born in Washington D.C. and has spent much of her life in Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Catherine is a screenwriter, film critic, and non-fiction poet. Her film review and interview, 'A Snowman's Chance in Hell,' has just been published as a Cineaste Web Exclusive (Winter 2012); her article, 'The Women of Bataille d'Alger: Hearts and Minds and Bombs,' is forthcoming in the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (Winter 2012-2013). Catherine lives in Los Angeles, CA.