Dirty

i feel dirty dirty like dishes in the sink dirty like forgotten clothes in the hamper dirty like the earth between your toes dirty like my fingernails after a day’s work dirty like the mind of a high-school boy dirty like a twenty-two-year-old man and his fourteen-year-old “girlfriend” dirty like a woman’s skin soiled by a man she once trusted dirty like the feeling in your soul when a man calls to you on the street dirty like how it feels to be betrayed dirty like society patriarchal, corrupt, hostile dirty like our president arrogant, incompetent, unfit dirty like kavanaugh’s conscience as he sits on the bench dirty like the justice system views abortion dirty like the look a police officer gives a black man dirty like a government that i cannot change dirty like humankind view people like me dirty like my grandmother thinks of me dirty like the world i am expected to raise a child in i feel dirty