BIG TALK

In this room

In this space

                    One of Us

Restaurants, Dorm Rooms, Public Transportation, Parks, Parking Lots, Indoors, The Bathroom of a Then-Trusted Friend                      

But be pretty       But be quiet         But be Dutiful            But be small/

               1 in 3, 3 of 5, 1 in 6, 90%, 17.7 Million                                                                                                                                                        Those thick thighs

                                                                                               See that smile?

                                                                                                                               Let's have that mouth

                                                                                                                                                                Don't you walk away

Where my ownership of Self

meets your requirements of culture

and where

Your Holy Trinity®

can’t seem to keep its stiff fingers

off of or out of Mine-

a secret rage festers;

We see your eyes undressing Us

oozing victory over the prize of our flesh

alive from a battle in which you did not fight fairly-

And beyond the void that Our eyes display

A draped expanse of a world exists

A crowded forest of Your sinuous trees

that had only suggested equality-

A silent place,

where We easily lift our sovereign legs

to crush Your feeble Branches

like goddesses of chaos

whose thirst for your blindness won’t be quenched

until every splinter is mulched

and ferns sprout anew.