one of her less depressing poems

[ivy_chan]

By the first of August
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color-no more than
the sand was a color and
we had worn our bare feet
bare since the twentieth
of June and there were times
we forgot to wind up your
alarm clock and some

Comments

[aerodactylus]

Oh hey, I know her! We read 'In Celebration of My Uterus' in my creative writing class, and concluded that if you were a guy you had no business reading that poem.

Also, the one you posted is cute and awesome.

[ivy_chan]

Why do you think you have no business reading the poem if you're a guy?

[aerodactylus]

Well, maybe not just reading it, but commenting on certainly. We all just had nothing worthwhile to add to any discussion on the topics presented in the poem.

[ivy_chan]

Ah, okay. I can understand that. I think it's very worthwhile for men to read about women and women's issues, but discussion has the possibility to get problematic, as you say. <8)

[aerodactylus]

I am laughing at the incredible apropos of your icon. And yeah, I mean...I don't have a uterus, I'm never going to have one, so I should probably refrain from inserting my foot into my mouth by trying to talk about uteruses like I know something about them.

[ivy_chan]

I have so many appropriate icons, you don't even know. XD

I wish more dudes could figure that out, seriously.

I know this guy who constantly attempts to explain to me how boobs work, and how boob sizing is wrong, and why my friend shouldn't be wearing the bra size she's wearing because he doesn't agree with the fact that she's a D cup. He thinks they look too small. It's just. Do you have boobs? have you ever had them? Are you looking to get them in the future? Then shut the fuck up, this has nothing to do with you or your opinions.

[aerodactylus]

Not to mention that, isn't bra sizing really weird and arbitrary, such that many people get confused about what size they're actually supposed to wear? Plus it was probably invented by men, as all ridiculous female products are. I mean, high heels? They look so uncomfortable!

[ivy_chan]

Bra sizing is pretty arbitrary, but bras were invented by women. High heels, however, were most likely invented by men FOR men out of military necessity. It caught on as fashion in fifteenth or sixteenth century, first for men, then for women.