Enabled Empathy
...It's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult
I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patria...
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Categories:
ableist, culture, health, humor, identity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
No Bones About It
...She’s taken to eating the people
The bones have all lost their allure
I’m uncertain the sudden attraction
And less so, the path to a cure
The dollhouse is going to need ramps
‘Cuz none of thes...
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Categories:
ableist, dog, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Nothing
...If gently bidding S.H. adieu
Makes Gal Gadot an ableist,
Then her hypersensitive critics
Are nothing if not labelists.
Note: S.H. stands for the late, great physicist, Dr. Stephen Hawkin...
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Categories:
ableist, hurt, satire,
Form: Epigram
Sparky, We'Re Going Under
...Happy 5th birthday have you accepted rape into your life,
It's a patriarchal practice built from sadism and male strife,
A hedonistic ritual to keep us all under control,
The birthright of masculi...
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Categories:
ableist, gender, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme