Laius and Jocasta, Medea, etc.
Simone de Beauvoir speaks of passion “born from love to murder love.”
Does she mean women (or their men) who want
Abortions after passion (or just sex
Or lust)? Does she mean women born to haunt
The cosmos with those listless babies, vex
Us all with ghosts who never lived to grow
A fervor for symphonic music or for cock
And semen, sloppy fetuses aglow
With scraped out hopes that never feel the shock
Of manliness invading up their cunts?
Or does she mean the fathers who must kill
The men who murdered much loved sons with grunts
Of hatred. Does she mean a queen with shrill
Intent to slaughter husband’s sons with knife
Or poisoning the man’s young bride and wife?