she said,
i did not know much about feminism
it is true,
i do not,

”i have read a book”,
aye, i said
”and that makes me clever”
oh, i said

troubled teen?
troubled by what
the education, the learning
the board that parents quitely forgot

tongue lashed people
bought in by the tide
bashed by,
the quizzical minimum wage
those who fought trench deep
for ignorance to be saved

only the blind
invent labels

the misfed
always put labels
over their eyes

i am the zig zag line
no definite stroke
just a dream like state of mind
murky half genius
direction hard to find