Shadow Woman

Photo by Rendiansyah on Unsplash

Well, I never thought in my life that I would want to write a poem inspired by a Kardashian, but here we are.

If Shadow took the form of a woman and walked

it would take the form of this woman, this particular woman--

The body that launched a thousand plastic surgeries,

a hundred thousand nights of crying from the pain

of changing a natural shape so brutally.

Shadow takes the form of a woman who dresses for presentation

not for the joy and movement of her body.

Adorned with clothes that prevent the basic functions of humanity --

pissing or eating or looking into the eyes of another human being.

Trailing darkness behind

checking the headlines next morning for her own name in lights.