These days I cannot tell
the difference between
Lara Croft and Laura Wilder
Didn’t they both face mummies?
Didn’t they both raid tombs?
Didn’t they both find secrets?
It’s somewhere between
prairies and pearls
that the line extends
to connect their hearts.
Speaking for us,
making a way
for those of us
shattered by abuse
and raped by men…
defending the powerless,
which is (unfortunately)
most all of us (even men)
in this paradigm
of patriarchy and privilege
It is far,
far deeper
and more complex
than anyone
lets on or is allowed
to show…
I could be wrong…
I could be vapid as vapor…
(or wapid as waper, you wascally wabbit!)
but my heart tattoos say otherwise
they are more Lara Croft than Lana Turner.
Charissa's Grace Notes 
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