The Infallibility of Men by Tasneem Mandviwala

If Adam is
made of atoms,
and Plato, Play-Doh,
it only makes sense
that Caesar would seize her,
why Titus tied us,
how Shakespeare shakes spears.
If Roosevelt was only a rose of felt,
and Orwell, or, well,
Warhol was war haul,
we are stunned,
we are shunned.
But
she
is
sharp
as
a
tack
and
does
not
fear
attack.

Tasneem Mandviwala is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago researching the multicultural experiences of American Muslim women. Her creative essays have been published in the anthology Faithfully Feminist and altmuslimah.com. This is her first poem publication.