for nasty women

1: beauty

Helen of Troy stares in the mirror 

and wants to destroy what stares back.

She's fifteen. She doesn't know yet

how history will talk about her face,

but she knows that no one 

can love a beautiful woman

for who she really is. 

2: history 

All they ever tell you about Sacagawea is that she led two strange men through her country and no one remembers how to pronounce her name. 

They conveniently forget that all she wanted in exchange for her services was one glimpse of the sea.

And all those dead white men who made her a footnote in history will never know how her heart raced as she gazed out over that vast expanse of blue, whether she wanted to drink or drown in it. 

3: hunger

Eve bit the apple and jump-started the universe,

and now women everywhere repent by starving themselves dead.

Isn't it funny, woman's first sin was her hunger?

Isn't it funny, it was Adam who couldn't keep his fucking mouth shut?