Dancing in Your Shoes
Jay Ferring, Joseph Woerlen, Julien Aimé, Nicolas Aimé, Seb Pabst, Yul Blanpied
"I wonder what it means", not "Tell me what it means" she said
Like if HE (mis)got it
Misnamed things add to the world's unhappiness
Blame it on patriarchy's bliss.
How many more men explaining to women
how to pronounce their own name?
How much more mansplaining will prevail
in the name of an ancestral game?
Don't interrupt me
I am not done
Your advice on my periods? - No thanks, she said
And when LyMAN Abbot explained
why women didn't want suffrage While claiming
He was speaking for the silent of them.
Don't interrupt me
I am not done
And when he explained mansplaining to me, she said
Did he simply realize?
Eyes fixed on the fuzzy far horizon
of his own authority
Don't interrupt me
I am not done