The Boys Always Knew They Were Animal Christine March 27, 2017 Explore Everything, Love Yourself, Personal Growth, Poetry and Spoken Word, Video, Videos They would hock loogies and have contests to see who could hold the longest belch They would fart when it was particularly stinky they would high five each other and say “good one”! But us girls, you know We weren’t supposed to spit or burp And especially not let anyone know that we bled We learned to straighten our curls and gloss our hair Smooth out our skin, cover our blemishes Perfume our stink It takes a tremendous amount of time and life energy to do this To sanitize the animal Polished beauty has a half-life of about 6 hours 12 hours in, and you’re hanging again 24 and your own natural musk from pussy and armpit has returned If I could have those hours back That were spent trying To not be a dirty little piggy To not be a bear in the woods To not be a mountain lion To not be a boy If I could have those hours back I would make shit I would fly planes I would dig beautiful ponds Where koi might swim I would build houses mostly of glass where the beams are nano steel and the structures look light as air If I could have those hours back I would make shit I would orgasm without restraint I would climb I would spit I would make shit I would bleed You would know my by my smell The overpowering musk of woman