Girls Scare You (Poem)

Girls Scare You

In Glenhaven Elementary

The library had biographies

Women who made a difference

I read Helen Keller,

Clara Barton

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Then there was some blah blah blah

About girls wearing dresses, not pants.

Amelia Earhart;

She wore pants.

All the while

Brainwashing continued

Narrowing of views

Pushed into ruched submission

Sitting pretty.

When Madonna

Came around

Very much unlike a virgin

I bet that freaked you out

With her cone boobs

Demanding to be noticed.

Then the message:

Women’s lib was a no-no,

But Playboy was okay.

Damn that elementary school library

For putting ideas in my head.

© Expressions by Christine 8/2/11