#40

i remember walking into the cloak room
and telling my 2nd grade girlfriend
that today…
i wore a bra
it was my cousin’s
taken from her panty drawer
flung over my shoulders
b cups barely pressed
across the base of my rib cage
with the clasp peeking
out of the back of my shirt
it was time
(...in 2nd grade)
to be a woman.
to gird and hoist
what had yet
to be actualized

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