About Face
by SMSmith – 1987
Male – Female
Two of a kind
Facing off
Though sometimes
Forward
Together
Two of a kind
Applauding
The New Man—
Cheering
The New Woman
Two of a kind
Denouncing
The Former Man—
Devaluing
The Prior Woman
Children
Eyeing
Backward and forward
Perplexed
At the New Man
Praised—
Who is the Old Woman
Rejected
At the New Woman
Honored—
Who is the Old Man
Dishonored
Progress?
Revolution?
Or merely
Inverted
Substitution?