Lesbian Poetry

Hunger

Tuesday's child is full of grace
No saving graces here:
Old, fat, ugly, dull, parent,
Unworthy of love.

If she goes, they can say
"She had no control"
Could not control her life,
Her love,
Her emotion,
Her madness,

She can control her hunger.
They will say, as she starves,
"She had some control"
But no graces.

15.10.04