Someone got her clit cut
Someone blindered her
led her into the pit
to keep her clit unlit
Keep it clipped
shut
slit
No pleasure now
No meow
Keep it a spit in the dark keep it dark
Keep it safe stuffed keep it so it had enough
Keep it writ
unwrit
Sit without it
Tie back the lobe
Dog screel keen
Keep her on the mark make her the mark
marketable
Make her market
Table her
Mongrel who done her in
Mongrel
and a twisted yellow rag mongering of it
What a butterfly what a lie to dare
write about her as though she is
a flower
from Daylily Called it a Dangerous MomentFind more by Alessandra Lynch at the library
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