Thank goodness for these labels.

How else would I have Known
that I was meant 
	to shape my form around a man,
	to allow him to Break me
time and again?

	Intelligent and
	Independent
as my femininity is,
I mean.

10/28/2026

Author's Note: Quite the word, that. I wrote this after having read yet another *iconic* 20th Century American novel about boyhood. (I'm done with those.)

Posted on 10/28/2026
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