ANNALISA MARÍ PEGRUM

Two poems by a young Majorcan woman poet

… and a few comics

programa de centrifugado variable

mi vida es una lavadora

que nunca se apaga:

posee un

centrifugado

variable,

monótono

pero constante

-de entre 900 y 1200 RPM va la cosa,

y aun corro el riesgo de aburrirme-.

hoy he cambiado

el programa de la lavadora

y bajo el montón

de piel muerta

he encontrado

bolitas de pelusa

calcetines extraviados

y en la esquina

unas bragas viejas

como estandarte de una vida

-lavadora blanca-

que nunca se apaga

variable spin program

my life is like a washing machinewhich never stops:it has avariableand monotonousbut steadyspin-between 900 and 1200 RPMs ,and yet I run the risk of getting bored.

Today I changedthe washing programand under the pile ofdead skinI foundballs of flufflost socksand at the cornersome old pantieslike the flag of a lifeWhite washing machine-which never stops.

DNI

anoche cuando te pidieron

a cuántas mujeres habías amado

fingí indiferencia

pero frente al espejo

al llegar a casa

busqué la carne más tierna

y tatué en ella mi nuevo y viejo nombre:

Nadie sabrá lo nuestro.

ellos tampoco.

IDENTITY CARD

last night when you were askedhow many women you had lovedI feigned indifferencebut in the mirrorwhen I got homeI looked for the softest skinand tattooed on it my new and old name:No one will know about us.And neither will they.

Why did we choose these two poems?

Quite simply because they represent young women today. In certain ways, things haven’t changedThe second poem speaks clearly about a man’s unfaithfulness and how this still affects womenThat is why we have chosen these two images of a faceless woman, we still have a lot of work

And finally, some comics

How men and women see things differently as we saw in Italy.

Men and housework as we saw in Portugal.

One of Spain’s most famous cartoonists also shows

So, what is happening in this first comic. Well, the manasks the woman what her job is and she says that she is a cleaner, a cook, a maid, a seamstress (a woman who sews), a woman who irons, a baby-sitter, a telephonist, a receptionist, a taxi-driver, a psychiatrist, a nurse, a playschool monitor, an economist, a storeroom manager, a mathematician, a sensual Geisha and a lover.

The man says that the description doesn't fit in the space he has and so the woman says well, put housewife instead!! This cartoon was published on the 8th of March, International Woman's day!

In the second cartoon, also published on the 8th of March, we can see a man watching television and a woman with a mop saying: I don't understand. I have a husband, two children, a wonderful house, my own car, I have a job as an executive, I find myself at the prime of my life ….. I should be happy but instead, I am really fed up.

At the end, Forges says in brackets (if this happens in developped countries, imagine what happens in the third world)

But fortunately, things are changing slowly but surely as we saw in Greece.

In this comic, we can see a woman and a man with placards.

The woman's placard says: If you love me

Don't shout at me

Don't insult me

Don't ignore me

Don't hit me

Don't rape me

Don't kill me

JUST LOVE ME!

And this modern man has a placard which says:

I LOVE YOU

Free

Fearless

Without discrimination

With a decent job

Respected

And happy!

A LOT OF ALL OF THIS

And with this project, hopefully we can all spread the word that, although we are different, we should be treated in the same