LisaDW
Poets Unlimited
Published in
1 min readNov 28, 2017

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#MeToo

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You changed the picture
to suit your vision of
a person like me
less threatening
less intelligent
less complex
less woman
less black
simply
a less
than

and when You squinted
i was the politically
correct option
invisible
so You
tried
me

i screamed inside because
your touch i could
not abide until
i did

But today, I
shrink no more.
Words? I have just 4.
See. Me. Now. Mutherfucker.

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LisaDW
Poets Unlimited

Who said writing was my choice? “They’re stuck in my head. Stories that need to be birthed feel heavy, full grown.”