Big Stick
That moment when you
Have enough testosterone changes
All over your skin and face that
You scare women everywhere you go
Because you have the same mannerisms
As a lady
But with the body of a football player
I never understood why men
Complained until
Women started to cower before me—
If I didn’t have such extensive experience
Knowing what they are afraid of
I might think something crazy like
It’s unjustified. Alas
This is my new normal. I’m starting to
Adjust, but I don’t know
If I’ll ever enjoy
Making random people afraid
Of what I might say or do
And I especially don’t enjoy
Confronting these types of men
Face to face, on the regular
As a dude. It’s a lot to get used to.
Lmfao anyway, it never used to happen but now
My girlfriend saw it happen and she
Was blown away
And, like the woman I was born as
I doubt anything that happens to me
Unless I have a witness —
Last night she was such
“Wow—“
She said
“That girl was afraid
You would be mad
That she didn’t get your order right”
“I know, this is what I’ve been trying to tell you—“
Ain’t no such thing as they when
The defaults are all the typical nightmares
All the usual scares, and
The only person that perpetrates them
Is someone who looks like a threat—
It never matters
If you are one, just
How you present
So now I walk tall, speak softly
And carry a big stick.