LOCK AND KEY — Kasey Thompson

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I am a woman,

and a sexual being but -

There’s ambiguity

as to why promiscuity

for me

Is casualty or criminality

But his is likability

or triviality.

You may not follow

but I question why

My sexuality

must be gyrated

but his sexual consequences

are celebrated.

I reject analogy

that mine’s a lock

and his a key

because looking scientifically

we know enough to know

that’s all shit.

I know it’s controversial to some

but stay with me -

We know that hormones

can make us frisky

So why is it socially risky

to act on them like you do?

Some sexual acts

he can approach carefree

but I guarantee

she’d be society’s deportee.

And don’t rely on tradition -

because I have my suspicion

it adds little definition

to your life

other than promoting

woman’s sexual inhibition.

This is a poetic petition.

Now I’m not spilling tea,

I’m just saying -

that your brain

must be an absentee

if you can’t grasp the reality

that women have needs too.

And if she’s a slut then so are you.

— Kasey Thompson