Ring around her neck

"FDA expands access to plan B, Seventeen year -olds will be able to get contraceptives over the counter, critics say politics influence ruling"

Covert oppression forms a ring around her neck
and she gets mad compliments on her necklace
her purpose here is not simply to take in his seed
into herself she sits on the shelf
painted perfectly and poised until she one day comes to
an awakening
of that unleashed creative potential within
she sits on a shelf yet belongs to herself
giving birth is not where she needs to be at
17 years old but the only power she believes she has access to is between her thighs
and he's already taken that from her so many times it's like
nickels and dimes
which now she puts together for contraceptives
for convenience
she leans into the wind and breathes a breath of rationality
his perspectives are lost on her today
her skin is a drum he hit to hear his own sound
and fuck that contemplation about whether or not he will stay as in
sit still
here take this pill
giving birth is not where she needs to be at
seventeen years old and
covert oppression forms a ring around her neck
and she gets mad compliments on her necklace