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The Pageantry of Womanhood
2025-12-01
Purge destructive thoughts
by writing on paper
your pent-up anger.
Sleep a life complete
in peace, waking
only at leisure.
Miserable bitch!
Stop being so cold toward yourself,
sympathizing with your aggression.
Wanting to die,
wanting to wander for a year
until underarm hair grows to the floor.
Pain. Pain. Go away.
Leave this belly to sweeter days.
Dream of sleep. Sleep not.
Lose yourself to anxiety.
while the blood of womanhood
has bloated your sensitivity.
COPYRIGHT © Patricia K McCarthy
by writing on paper
your pent-up anger.
Sleep a life complete
in peace, waking
only at leisure.
Miserable bitch!
Stop being so cold toward yourself,
sympathizing with your aggression.
Wanting to die,
wanting to wander for a year
until underarm hair grows to the floor.
Pain. Pain. Go away.
Leave this belly to sweeter days.
Dream of sleep. Sleep not.
Lose yourself to anxiety.
while the blood of womanhood
has bloated your sensitivity.
COPYRIGHT © Patricia K McCarthy
