
Category: sociology
she kept her honor

so he took her like an animal
but my father’s ghost wept
so she went to the men
like a good American
good people don’t want to believe
in visionaries good or bad
especially when you have red clay mud
starved stabbed scabbed over and over
on your grandmother’s dress from being raped just like her
from ft. Sumter to Wounded Knee
he’d never seen that color red come out of a living fertility statue
my veil is torn
the dog is dead
the natives have resumed their drumbeat
Ha!! Me, too…
Poof* Take MY water

correct change
to quantify what 189,00 dead Americans
equates to within the psyche of this country
we must apply the correct math
due to lack of competent leadership within the White House
the COVID19 pandemic has been allowed to spread
across schools to cemeteries
into three Vietnams
or sixty-three
September the 11ths
Donald Trump should be made to place coins
from his own pocket
over the eyes of every corpse
he could have prevented &
perhaps the saddest notion is
even if the great king
cared to part with his shekels
our country will still be left
more bankrupt
from his mistakes
than him
I’ve done my share. Coast to coast.
I’ve done my share of poet husbands, too.
for teaching empathy
when generations
of parents
failed to do so
thank you for maple syrup
Do you think
Canadians feel like
they occupy
the spacious attic
of hell?
it’s frustrating
when you’re trying
to teach your offspring
to fly off
from the nest
when
they are pigeons
the size of bowling balls
with no desire
to put aerodynamics
to the test
Paris in the rain
a woman’s life
is too tenuous
delicate
billowy
spider web
close call on I-75
in preterm labor
on the way to the
Paris airport
in the rain
fragile
beautiful
precious
sacrosanct
finite
for bad friends
bad family
bad coffee
bad shoes
bad mattresses
bad jobs
bad husbands
bad debt
and bad dick
learn this by 30 for maximum
enjoyment
future
female
conquerors
of a dying planet