When they call
You a bitch on the
Internet they always
Do it from screens
With emojis or tactless gifs
They seek to ruin your
Day with a word
Designed to identifying
An unruly fox, dog or a
Wolf.
They seek to occupy
Space in our head you
Cannot afford to rent
And reopen wounds
Under skin tougher
Than under your feet.
These mobs of
Faceless beta males
And even more co-signing
Women complicit in their own
Oppression have no idea
What it means, what it feels
Like to be called a bitch.
A dog.
Less human.
More primal.
More loud.
More controlled.
What the world wants
Is more quiet moment,
More subdued women
The one who will
Smoke and curse when
No one will
See it,
Eat to soothe
heart deep aches
And spend wallet
and body
On what
she cannot afford.
Her voice is a rude
to people who think
she is too loud
to be heard
is to present–
to be respected
in a way too big
for the for the
space that she occupies!
so the way
that you knock her down?
is to call her
The thing which
crawls on four legs.
the thing that scavengers…
rather thing that hunts.
when they call
you a bitch on the Internet
that means that
they have no power over you–
No power to stop you
In your every day life–
so since they
cannot stop you,
they will humble you
and from humbling to
hobbling you …
But in the hobbling
you learn to walk
on your hands
because you cannot
be stopped and
will not be stopped
And your roar is just with they fear
(c) JBHarris, January 2021
I Breathe Fire 