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Like Me

by Anita Mac

I'm so Piscean
I could drown your ass
in a fickle fury of indecision.
You think you can handle Me?
I am the kind of woman
you never knew you wanted,
because you'd never seen one before.
I am from the wider world,
so let me broaden your horizons:

Women like me
don't like men who
think they know how to play
    The Game
(nor men who do, but that's not you, honey,
no, that's not you).

Women like me
know within ten seconds of meeting
whether or not we trust you
(and whether or not we want to, to be fair,
no conflict there).

Women like me
live our lives
crossing bridges when we need to
(or when we want to, but I don't here,
and I don't here).

Women like me
are not handled
because we don't need to be
(that doesn't make us easy, quite the opposite,
when it comes down to it).

So,
get your skeezy paw
off the small of my back,
because women like me
know men who are worth knowing,
and are just fine alone.

12/29/2007

Posted on 12/29/2007
Copyright © 2024 Anita Mac

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Laura Doom on 12/29/07 at 08:12 PM

Well, women like me don't like me, like me, so I guess you're on solid ground here without having to burn bridges :) This may be one that men don't get, even with paws for thought or subjunctive claws, as if that were plausible.

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 12/29/07 at 08:52 PM

Message received loud n' clear. I like the forcefulness of confidence in this piece. Clever use of brackets also to emphasize the middle part fo the poem, framed by the first and last stanzas. This Scorpio says well done!

Posted by Mara Meade on 12/29/07 at 08:54 PM

Now THIS... is passion.

Posted by Scott Utley on 12/29/07 at 10:17 PM

HotDANG!To look at me is to feel suspicion, I'm early bred nyc street kid with a great education collected by a master plan involving great luck - a real man's man - but - after reading your revelation - I have comepletely embraced the woman in me and she is just like you HOT DAMN!

Posted by Joe Cramer on 12/31/07 at 11:11 PM

Exceptional!!!

Posted by Morgan D Hafele on 01/01/08 at 02:25 AM

are you ok with hugs though?

Posted by Ava Blu on 01/02/08 at 01:58 AM

Kindred spirit, this is wonderful. I miss you.

Posted by Laura Doom on 11/02/14 at 01:15 PM

Upon revisiting, I'm reminded how much...

Posted by Richard Vince on 04/12/20 at 09:14 PM

satisfyingly punchy. :)

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