she gets to enjoy exclusive use
of the "marital residence"
otherwise known as the one-bedroom
bronx apartment she had years before they met
she gets to keep her name
the name her parents gave her
upon arrival
thank God, in this country, she gets
to keep her clit too
it's only fair
she let him keep his balls
I read lines five and six falsely and thought about how America likes to change people's names (and inflict other kinds of violence) when they arrive.
ReplyDeleteDamn! Nice one, Mindy! Cuts right through.
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