I learned to swim
When I was young
I learned
Freestyle
Breastroke
And butterfly
Now here I am
Years later
And all I know
Is how to sink
How to drown
How to go deeper
And deeper
And not come
Up for air
I no longer know
How to float on my back
How to race across
The span of the pool
All I know
Is how to sink
How to drown
There was this book
That I used to read
When I was younger
It talked about all these women
All these women
Who did amazing things
When magnets are placed the right way
They connect
When they're placed the wrong way
They use everything in their power to stay away
From each other
They resist
With a force
Every time a women makes 87 cents
A man makes a dollar
For every time a woman gets spoken down on
A man is the speaker
For every time a woman gets called weak
A man is weaker
Comments
I love how the words stretch out down the page as if they themselves are sinking.
Thank you!
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