Friday, April 26, 2013

Rollerderby Girl (Poetry)


Tough,
this girl is tough.
Tough as nails,
or tough as some
 random cliché.

Her face is a
mask of determination,
her frown drips in sweat.

Rolling, rolling fast,
fast, so fast,
fast.

She grits her teeth.
She knows a hit is coming.
A rogue elbow, a random knee.
She grits her teeth.
She knows a hit is coming.
Her body falls, her body
hits the floor.

She gets up,
she always gets
up.

Pain is not here,
pain is away. 
Far away.
Pain, pain go
away.

She gets up,
she always gets
up.

Rolling, rolling fast,
fast, so fast,
 fast.

You do not, you do not
any more mighty shoe.
You do not keep me down.
You do not.

In the rink, I am strong.
I am Valkerye on wheels,
I am Athena, Aphrodite,
Persephone
in short shorts beating up
Antigone.

Rolling, rolling fast,
fast, so fast,
fast.

(2013)



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