cost and value

can't a girl just be

without being someone's something

stuffed in an appropriate box

labeled free thinker

thinking is never free

it will cost you

jobs

loves

relationships

social acceptability

unless

you think in the

proper circles

sadly

proper is often

just a justified

cruelty with a

politics of greed

dripping like a

glob of fat

heaped over a healthy salad

they call it dressing

pressed in pomp

and plastic

in a spastic flurry of

mineminemine

from fact to fabrication

tic to toc

the flock will follow

anyone who feeds them

even if it fattens them

for slaughter

so a girl could find

there isn't that much value

in the world of

yes man.