Votes
if women weren’t allowed to vote in 2020
king trump would have us locked up in farms
making him money
until we were no longer able to bear children
sexual predator laws would slacken until
they didn’t exist
women would become chattel again
mares to be traded for money or goods
if we couldn’t vote
all of the 10’s would probably be fine,
but the rest of us would float like dead birds
in green poison seas
there won’t be an environmental protection agency
it may seem like I’m exaggerating
but I can promise you that I’m not
I have a B.A. in women’s studies
and I’ve read the history
I’ve read the biographies of suffragettes
who chained themselves to the fences outside the white house
women’s history is a history of servitude to men
so go vote,
while you can
--Heidi Blakeslee
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