TheFeatheredSleep – Boys will be boys. Girls will be wrong.
She always knew she was a girl
by the way older women treated her
their higher standards expected
than if she were a boy
for boys … could climb trees and expose their underwear
while she was scolded and told not to be ‘a little harlot’
boys came barreling in full of spunk and fury
exhibiting their mirth with muddy feet
to ladies who smiled indulgently and patted their
ruffled heads
glancing over at her, with disapproving eyes
and a tut of the chin which said; “I hope you are not
going to track that mud into the kitchen and if you do
be prepared to clean it up. What kind of girl climbs
trees and gets herself full of dirt?”
The unspoken and the spoken
those days she sought sympathy when her heart
felt like bursting
responses varying from; “maybe you didn’t ‘try hard
enough, you…
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