Woman Is the Nigger of the World.
John Lennon & Yoko Ono

This above all
To refuse to be a victim
Unless I can do that
I can do nothing
I have to recant
Give up the old belief
That I am powerless . . .
Withdrawing is no longer possible
And the alternative is death.
Margaret Atwood

The News from Mogadishu is beyond belief
They say if you stay in this world long enough
You might even get to see some wonders of the world
The wonder of camels copulating!
The wonder of camels giving birth!

But I never believed
But I never dreamed
That I will get to see
This wonder of all wonders!
This wonderest of them all!

A woman
Saying
Bold and out loud!
No!
To rape

Saying
Hell No!
I won’t suffer
In silence!
In secret!
In shame!

Saying
I have done nothing to be ashamed of!
I have to spit out this sicko secret!
Secrets make you sicko!
As sicko as the sicko who raped me!

Saying
I refuse to be a helpless hopeless victim

Saying
I am telling you
If I keep quiet
If I stay Silent
Like my rapist wants me to
Like Hassid Hassan blip…Jadiid wants me to
The stones will cry out:

This loser raped her!
This bully raped her!
This wannabe man raped her!
This punk raped her!
This Hassan blip, blip blip her!
This Demean Jadiid raped her!

The Patriarchy of Somalia panicked
And railroaded
That dangerous woman
That raped woman
That wronged woman
Into jail
Where she is sitting now
For her effrontery!
For being uppity!
For refusing to be a nigger!
For refusing to be a piece of meat!
For refusing to accept being raped

As her lot for being a woman!
For daring to buck the Putrid Patriarchy of Somalia!
But I have news for you
Today in jail
That Somali woman
Is freer than me
Is freer than you
And most definitely
She is freer than her rapist
She is the freest Somali
She is the freest being on planet earth
As long as that woman is in jail
Every Somali is in jail!
Every feeling thinking being on this planet is in jail!

Remember what a woman is:
A woman is your mother
A woman is your sister
A woman is your wife
A woman is your daughter
And if you are man enough
And if you are brave enough
And if you are blessed enough
And if you are beautiful enough
And if you are strong enough
The best of you is most definitely
A woman like her!

Because of that brave Somali woman
There is now a new saying in Somalia:
Somalis have two things going for them
Somalis have two aces in the hole:
Allah

And,That Righteous & Right-on Somali woman
Who is now sitting in the Somali Slammer.

Mohamud Siad Togane
Email: togane@sympatico.ca