We Bitches [by Anna Guzon]

We Bitches

Even a charming
little girl will
print a few
well-chosen words
neatly fold it
into a star and
disseminate her
harm. We know

how to ruin a
reputation. We learn

to play it in the
schoolyard.

Her name
sounds like stink.

His eye-ware
is hilarious.

We grow-up

to make-up
assumptions

that are sounder
than children’s.

His middle
name is unfaithful.

Her marriage
is laughable.

We die

without ever
knowing

what is said in
one’s obit.

She often kept
to herself. The bitch

knew how to
choose her words.

— Anna Guzon