I like how the painted pleats butterfly out from the groin
on stained denim jeggings, skin tight jeans
as if to say “Look here! I am transformed! Unzip me!”
I enjoy the jerry-built cursive writing
evidence of its removal from the curriculum
now staining the empowered clothes we wear
my breasts: the billboard of the uneducated but equal
exceptions made to lower the standards
so that we can sustain
an earth past its carrying capacity
and evacuate those who hasten its end
The Halfwit Writer 