"Whatever her name is"

Mahogany Smiles
Nov 13, 2025
1 min read

I hope your daughter has someone to turn to, When her body is picked apart like chicken.

When boys lick their lips

At her forming breast.

I pray you're there

Explain that the bones place beneath her skin belong to her,

Not men,

Drooling mouths,

Wishing to suck her on her marrow.

I hope you tell her

As untouchable you always pray her to be,

There may be a day

She'll have to use her knee

Like a sledgehammer,

Tell her to keep mace and a box cutter when She's walking home,

At a friend's place,

or a grocery store parking lot.

If her thighs become appetizing

To her school teacher,

Teach her

Not to bite her tongue,

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