Jamiaca Kincaid

Sat, 01/21/2017 - 13:17 -- evapad

This is how to be a girl

How to cook and clean and sew

How to be looked at,

How to never look

 

This is how to be a girl

How to be soft smiles, closed knees, and proper lengths

How to be spoken to,

How to never be heard

 

This is how to be a girl

Not bones and flesh and heart

But obedience and tolerance and slut

 

This poem is about: 
Me

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