The Women These Days

The women these days

write a lot of poems,

short stories,

and novels,

the lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals, 

queers, trans, 

and the rest too,

as if they're just discovering

they have 

something to say

and must now

convince us,

and themselves.

The men these days

play video games,

kill zombies,

gamble online,

beat each other

to bloody pulps

in cages

for the privilege

of wearing

the golden belt—

champion 

of the world.

They don't say 

much.

Between the lines

the same old question

and the answer

is always

love.