More or Less or…
our bodies were the problem
I heard them out on the playground
talking about the “rack” on one of my friends
discussing the ass of another
pontificating about the lovely legs of the tall one
I was eleven years old
when I realized we could be
talked about
high-fived about
bragged about
we could be
objectified
criticized
conquered
in spaces of artificial safety
like homes and gyms and churches
we were a footnote on the
pages of their masculine lives
and it all boiled down
to our flesh and bones and blood
we may have been
more than our bodies
but we couldn’t possibly
be less
- Rachel Toalson
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