you were right.
you [who have been lucky enough
to complain that no one
ever advocates on your behalf] were right.
i victimize myself.
you [who have never heard a sexpot
with twice your muscle mass
crack laughs on your body
from a foot above your head] were right.
i can’t take a joke.
you [who have chewed sloppily
at every hand that fed you
piles of inky green dough
without a single question] were right.
i make up all my problems.
you [who have always loved who
you were expected to love
and dressed in the clothes
you were handed in Target] were right.
i am insecure in my gender.
you [who have only lived within
yourselves awash in the
frustration of having a
surprisingly awful view
from atop your pyramid] were right.
i hold you to unfair double standards.
you were right.
[i thought you rational beings
and for that alone]
i am a dumb cunt after all.
–H. Lynette Barr