Poets, Sound Familiar?

The Olympia Riot Grrl scene in contrast to the more outwardly political Washington DC scene:

...Everybody in Olympia's tight-knit punk scene knew who these girls were. And in the political isolation of the Pacific Northwest, it was easy to be satisfied with that instead of immediately trying to push a broader political agenda. "There was a possibility that I could change punk, 'cause I belonged there," Michelle said. "It didn't feel possible to change the rest of the world--because I didn't feel part of the rest of the world." If your scene was your whole existence, then the politics of that scene became supercharged with significance; changing the world could be as simple or as elusive as changing the scene. Similarly, if the revolution was a group of friends, then living the revolution could be as simple or as elusive as making friends with the most intimidating girls you'd ever seen.

--from Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

Let Them Eat It

All the ones having cake
want to eat it too

ones have their cake
but still want more
and want more to eat
more of it

ones with cake
eat cake and want cake
and eat lots

and cakeless ones
eat some cake
they like the cake taste too

who taste cake,
they taste cake, taste
cake, they taste it
and can't scrape it
from their tongues
but some cakes they taste
on their tongues
for months
and wonder now
what if they
waste cake?

but then there's
always more cake
but what cake?
when you have no cake
the cake you take
is an important cake
when the cake you want
cannot be took

though these taken cakes
do take cake even
cakes of other taken cakes
and cakes will wonder
which cakes cannot now
be hooked

there are those cakes
that do not eat because
they are gluten free and
eating cake would hurt
the cake that they are
glad to be

and promised cakes
that promise to
eat a one and only cake
who as two cakes
have baked some cake
and made a sweet cupcake

and cakes bring new cakes
they bring cakes to the party
they say, cake, meet these cakes
eat some cake, we eat cake
it’s good cake, you’re good cake,
have some cake at this party

and all are caked
and get more caked
until their cake eyes have crossed
these cakes eat cake
because the cake
because the cake
because the cake
because the cake
because the cake
because the cake
because the cake’s the boss.