Yes, All Women

• Kaitlyn Smith, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2018

You don’t get it, do you?
That this is my body, not yours.
You don’t know, do you,
As you yell across the street for me not to frown,
You can’t tell, can you,
Because why else would you be angry I refused a drink?
You don’t believe me, do you,
That it was him, not my short skirt,
You just don’t understand, do you,
That I didn’t choose to fear the night,
No, I can tell that you don’t.
It’s in the way you say “But not all men!”
Because you don’t get it, do you;
That yes, all women.