"i had to leave the house of fashion
go forth naked from its doors
cuz women should be allies
not competitors
i had to leave the house of god
cuz the cross replaced the wheel
and the goddesses were out in the garden
with the plants that nourish and heal
i had to leave the house of privilege
spend christmas homeless and feeling bad
to learn that privilege is a headache
that you dont know that you dont have
and i had to leave the house of television
to start noticing the clouds
its amazing the stuff you see
when you finally shed that shroud
i had to leave the house of conformity
in order to make art
i had to be more or less true
to learn to tell the two apart
and i had to leave the house of fear
just about as soon as i could crawl
ignore my face on the wanted poster
stuck to the post office wall
i had to leave the house of self-importance
to doodle my first tattoo
realize a tattoo is no more permanent
than i am, and who
ever said that life is suffering
i think they had their finger on the pulse of joy
aint the power of transcendence
the greatest one we can employ"
shroud by ani difranco
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