Month: June 2022

Do me a passing kindness
or give me just one word without spite
I’ll let you fold me like a paper tigress
or dance me like a kite.

You can keep me in your toy box
and show me to your friends.
Just dust me off when you remember
that I am lost beneath the bed.

I’ve whirled a dervish worth of madness
a spun out spinning wheel
when you turned the crank to wind me up
I told you that you were hurting me
but I never know what’s real.

So keep me in your toy box
tell me what I am
I don’t have the strength to be a woman
So I’m a ragdoll
in your hands.