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Women(girls) Are Not Stones by K. Asare-Bediako

~ Lou Tondeur

Women Girls are not stones poem i am coming forth to where it seem a new beginning to the forging wind cascading my mother's elbow a span of moon reverberating the anatomy of grief building a staircase beneath my sister's shore i am going south to hunt for sticky men & a holocaust of unrestrained pity knocks the inside of my eyes it's heaviness pouring me tranquility what is it with forgiveness whenever one is at mean let it not be so, my softhearted body—my soul i have gather the lynching 3 years on the table where i yearned for freedom where my inflictions were too harder, a stone, to sustain a skin from bleaching red in the inside let it not be a servitude where vengeance is overlooked in the eyes of saunas i know silence does not have a cutoff score for girls i know a woman is the second of man in marriages which is to say only a brothel achieves the goal from marriage setbacks — beating i last recounts the scar from the sting of marital death & the results of the beating examination conducted on the eve of every thursday on my mother's skin... my sister's clamour precedes the one that grapple my throat & i am seen knitting denouement in stinky houses i am captured swallowing their distress like lush i am okay if you name gallop a first death i mean show me a river which does not bleed to lost every woman is a river why wade in when you can pass by if the police have ears they should start listening to to the blood from the gagged if those caucus have eyes they should unfold them they should cling its socket to homes they don't know that a tree is a woman that makes a country with her branches they don't know the girl is not a fort-less town i have to remind them that girls, too, have feelings they always trample, forgetting the girls are not stones by K. Asare-Bediako

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women girls poem part 3 Women Girls are not stones poem by K. Asare-Bediako
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