"THE RIOT INSIDE THE QUIET" in "RESTLESS: POETICALLY-SPEAKING"

You keep forcing that old, rotten joke
about how we keep quiet
yet demand that we be understood

Ha…ha…ha…!
What a dork
You think you’re such a riot
when you’re just being rude

Has it ever occured to you,
we’ve tried to tell you before?
All you did was laugh us off
calling us out
on our ‘supposedly’ irrationality
while you’re as logical as can be

You also tend
to get especially violent
in order to shut us up
saying that ‘good women’ should hush,
keep quiet

You’re the joke
I wish you’d be painfully choked
by your giant-sized ego
just so I could shove you where to go

You always find things to say
You have always been ‘oh-so-privileged’ anyway
Please, stay in the stone age
I’m sick to death of hearing you yap
while greedily claiming the whole centre stage!

R.