Doublebinding Riddles

When is physical restraint equipment
also dirty laundry?

When your daughter vomits
all over her school bus transport harness,

When she could have more safely,
and less expensively, traveled
in a six-seat van
with her contenting seat belt on

Rather than shackled to her seat
and unshackled into her school

Where all unharnessed big girls and boys
hierarchically go
to not air their dirty laundry.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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