MEDUSA’S MIRROR is a ragtag collection of essays, poems and miscellaneous bits of wonder-why’s. Mama’s chicken soup for the soul is served up here, while I do battle with our worst enemies... our long-deluded selves.
Readers the world ‘round claim that this is just what this sorry, sick world needs most right now. Nothing escapes my scrutiny and absolutely nothing is sacred... least of all, what we hold most sacred. This is an angry Earth Mother, chewing us out through me, while lovingly setting us straight.
As we go further into the new millennium, this work can change our minds about the past ones... and our present. If the next cataclysm is overdue, as many believe, and we soon have to “face the music,” what I have to say will convince you we deserved it!
Think you’re brave enough (& honest enough) to look into MEDUSA’S MIRROR?
Go ahead!
[Note: Since I'm a techno-ninny, I can't link the titles below to the work on the site, but everything is here, linked under 'essays' and 'poetry' via the "Writings" button on the left and below... so, if you print this table of contents, you can have fun browsing for the pieces, and assembling your own book.]
MEDUSA’S MIRROR
A tragicomedy in six acts, by maïa
OVERTURE
Reality Fix
Reality Fix / A Voyeur Confesses / Attention All Kooks! /Cross-Ventilated / Self-Abuse / Who Knows? / Common Senses
ACT I
What Are We… Anyway?
Objections From a Glass Hut / Once Upon a Time…(?) / Bad News: Good News / Little People, Small Minds / If It Kills Cats… / Fairest of Them All / Blind In One Eye, &…/ I Confess / Alienation of Affection/ Semi-Final Newsflash From the Ant Farm / What a Croc’! / I.Q., Don Q., Cue Ball in the Corner Pocket / Free Gifts / Swells On the Boat Deck
ACT II
Good & Evil: At Odds In The Universe
Unequivocally Bad Things / Crying Wolf / Ill-Gotten Gains / Terrorism… My Way / A Deal With the Devil / Goody-Goody / Scared… Of Our Own Shadow / R.I.P. / Big, Bigger, Biggest / Got One! / For the Meat & Potatoes Crowd / Alternative Life Style / Mangia! Mangia! / Bad, Badder, Baddest / Impious Ponderings / Motherly Love
ACT III
Man + Woe = Woman
Free Lunch / Woman’s Work /We Never Had to Die! / A Woman’s Place/ He-Man: She Jane / Banzai! / Adam’s Rib Update: Sick Humor Gone Wrong / What Part of “No!” Do You Not Understand? / A Gender Render/ Our Mother, Who Art… / Oath Of Life For Wom(b)mankind
ACT IV
All Jerks Are Human & Vice Versa: Chapter & Verse On Vice
Silliest Things / Poetic Justice II / VISA, MC or American Express? / Up Your Assets / Dare To Be Right! / Knock, Knock… Who’s There? (Anybody?) / Becalmed / Waste Not… / Obsession / One’s What? / Snake Oil, Snake Eyes…’n Sin / War Of Words: “Molest, Molest!”/ Vain Glory / What Say The Dead? / Hollywood Homicide / Déja Vu / An Optical Delusion / My Manifesto / The Last Laugh / Nuthin’ New Newsflashes / In the Immortal Words of…
ACT V
Back-Up To Basics: Which Way Is Down?
Things I Must Know Before I Go / The Fountain of Youth: For Kids Only / The Ginseng Gang / Notches, Trophies, Game Scores & Body Counts / Shangrila Unfound / Dumbo vs Jumbo / Death Sentences / The Saddest Words / Rélevez (On Their Toes!?) / Teens in Trouble Vs “Truman’s Law” / Language: Exercises in Futility / To Tell the Truth / …Pants On Fire! / Why Not? / Alone In the World
ACT VI
Yer Ma Wears Combat Boots… Better Treat Her Right!
Ingrates / From the Deathbed of A Dying Planet: #1. Eat, Drink & Be Merry…; #3. Tennis, Anyone?; #4. Earth’s Edict / They Toll For Thee & Me / Fifth World / It’s To Die For! / Open Wounds
CURTAIN
Towers Of Babel & Houses Of God
Credit Where Due / Pretty Please!? / A Prayer For Peace / (The Nazis,) The Jews, Palestine & Israel / IMbalance Of Power / God Only Knows / You’re How Old? / Endgame / Public Enemy #1 / Veterans’ Day 1997
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love and hugs, maia
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