To my Uterus

Dear Womb,

Have I not been a good hostess?

For twenty-eight years I've been a victim of your self-regeneration. Month after month, the same old thing. Raging hormones, 5 or more extra pounds, swollen ankles, puffy everything, crying at sappy Visa or Hallmark commercials, yelling at the boys (who deserve it, mostly), zapping fatigue, cramps bad enough to bring flashbacks of labor... and loss of blood, endometrial tissue, and fluid so great, I have a hard time keeping up.

No wonder men are so afraid of women and their uterine cycles.  The desert trio of myths are based on man's need to put a kebosh on any power the mysterious free bleeding creature that is woman, may hold.

The great power is for reproduction, I know, but I don't really want to do that again. I'm forty, can't you slow it up a bit? Just a little?

Perspicacious

To look through and see

He's perspicacious, I say!

Knows my secret soul.

Perspicacious is a synonym for perceptive, having the ability to understand things not readily seen on the surface.

Syllogism

work words together

syllogism, thoughts, statements

logically one

Literally words together, SYL - together + LOG word. A form of reasoning which consists of two statements and the conclusion one can draw from them.

An example of a syllogism: All reptiles are cold blooded; snakes are reptiles; therefore snakes are cold blooded.

Emolument

Emolument pay

Grind out your living wages

Take some time to play

Mutable

Inconstant; Changing

Mutable environment

Nothing stays the same

Auspicious

Look at the birds flight

Auspicious day for travel

Favorable wind

From the ancient practice of watching a birds flight to portend omens. Today it means promising good luck or favorable conditions.

Polyphyletic

Polyphyletic

Our country, the melting pot

Made of many tribes.