When I hear their words of hate,
righteous anger fills me and
my palms itch.
Remembering the way the hilt of a knife feels.
My eyes look for weak places to attack.
My hatred rises, not for them, but
for their power.
Because of them, what could have been
is no more.
What gives them the right to deny my future?
Our future?

Image Source “Seven Female Artists Who Subverted Surrealism: Even though history celebrates male surrealists, it was the women who gave the movement its truly conceptual charge,” dazeddigital.com, April 2019.

Joyce Frohn has been published more than two hundred times and is still broke. She is married with a teen-aged daughter. She also shares a house with a snake, a gecko, two cats and too many cobwebs.