Literature
succubus
Nemesis likes to play fair,
and I respect her for that.
if I stab out your eye,
you're welcome to stab out mine.
and when we chat about "equality,"
we sometimes work around the word,
taking quiet bites to miss the rotten spots.
no one understands until
they taste the grainy blackness
rubbing on the roof of their mouth.
no one understands
unless it happens to them.
so, when she speaks her mind,
she's a bitch,
and nobody loves a bitch.
the truth is,
nobody loves when their punching bag
learns to punch back;
suddenly the game isn't fun anymore.
and we're reduced to that one word,
"bitch,"
reduced to
that feminist with the words
men roll the