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Flashbulb Strumpet
by Hannah Jean

Sometime between teddy bears and negligees
a girl learns the proper way
to flash her thigh without being a slut,
to hollow out her stomach without losing her sex,
to tuck her breasts up and in,
Creating a swell falsifying nature,
without the threat of evoking an image
that would be deserving of an alley rape.

Sometime before ‘woman’
a girl shuts up her mouth
and spreads wide her thighs
to receive her validation.

And sometime,
Amidst the slow honey torment
of piecing together the newness
of jutting hips and sloping breasts,
a girl learns the volatile power
of the body that batters her into servitude.

Through herself,
Sometime,
a girl,
malcontent in the storm of her transformation,
learns the proper way
to harness the devastating influence
of her bare thigh, and stomach, and breast
Until
She chokes on the swell of her own bloated tongue.


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