S.A.
I am sitting here.
I am listening to TLC in this place
I am listening to feminists
Discuss web outlines.
They are discussing women.
I fill out Scholarship Applications.
And cringe.
Stomach tightening and twisting.
Legs crossing
Squeezing
Strangling
Legs uncrossing.
Almost grinding
My teeth.
I check female.
On a Scholarship Application.
I am flexed
In flux.
Body in vexation.
Scholarship Application.
Tightness in my chest.
Dry eyes.
I am staring
At this Scholarship Application.
Scholarship Application.
Thinks my identity is important.
It wants to identify me.
Scholarship Application
Says I can be
Streamlined.
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