Marie Smysor Watson
My Kind
These are the things I think about during lazy summer days, namely how lucky my boys are! Enjoy this short poem, my friends, without or without a shirt...
If I were a man
I would never
ever
wear a shirt.
Like never.
I would barely,
rarely wear pants.
Barefoot too,
plants would wither, die,
cry at my beefy beauty.
Hey cutie! the ladies would holler
Their cheap dollar store shades reflecting
what the Earth recognizes as good.
Could I? Should I?
You're damn straight I would.
But it's no good.
because I'm not a man.
Therefore, I must always plan
on a shirt lest the world
be burnt
by my condition.
Naked ambition
never, ever looks good on my kind.