Being a girl is easy. First, you must rarely speak
\nand when you do, it must be hurried<\/p>\n
so you don\u2019t take up too much time. You must be slender
\nand reach out to those skinnier to prove you didn\u2019t do it<\/p>\n
on purpose. You must never say that spiders
\ncrawl out your mouth and across the walls when you pray.<\/p>\n
You must never say your body plays dress-up in skin
\nbut it is actually water tension around constellations<\/p>\n
of darkness. You must never say your bones are cactus
\nskeletons full of small snakes and that is why it rattles.<\/p>\n
You must say you stay small because you don\u2019t deserve the space.
\nPeople know how to respond to that. They say you do.<\/p>\n
You do deserve it. You do. Because when you no longer look
\nlike a stick about to break no one asks anymore. Take it from<\/p>\n
experience. Because now I say you do, you do deserve
\nthe space, you really do. Because being a girl is easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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