Caitlin’s Reviews > Activist > Status Update

"their smiles lit with pride as the candles
twitch and shiver"

love this line

"If you've turned yourself up as loud as you can,
screamed your throat sore,
yelled yourself hoarse
and still no one has heard,
then what comes next?
Is silence the inevitable consequence?"

"No more dutiful prefects
being dutifully perfect."

"I get up, creep out,
wishing I could leave my thoughts behind
like a pile of clothes
thrown to the floor
by the bed."

"I wish my childhood didn't have to be a war."

"Since when was Sunday dinner
all about roasting me?"

"Knuckles keyed for battle,
I arm myself with household things"

"But I wish I could organize
something bigger
than my bedroom."

"Has our biology designated us
more adept
at cleaning up other people's messes?"

"Misogyny has its own algebraic conjecture.
Prizes available for the first to discover
what makes
M+F
an unequal, unsolvable equation."