LEGACY
'Anything handed down from, or as from an ancestor to a descendant.'
for Anastasia Jean
Prologue
There are those who think
or perhaps don't think
that children and lesbians
together can't make a family
that we create an extension
of perverson.
they think
or perhaps don't think
that we have different relationships
with our children
that instead of getting up
in the middle of the night
for a 2 AM and 6 AM feeding
we rise up and chant
'you're gonna be a dyke
you're gonna be a dyke.'
That we feed our children
lavender Similac
and by breathing our air
the children's genitals distort
and they become hermaphrodites.
They ask
'What will you say to them
what will you teach them?'
Child
that would be mine
I bring you my world
and bid it be yours.
By Pat Parker