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Nintendo

 

 

How to be confident/how to soften:

 

Imagine every man you know

 

As a child playing Nintendo

 

Last night my son talked to me about the birds

 

Picking at his heart

 

What he said was a big problem was actually a small problem

 

But he opened his mouth

 

And showed it was

 

Sky-sized

 

Past bedtime

 

The Christmas tree

 

A rainbow of lights

 

Boys are small new men

 

But women are scorched and petrified girls so much

 

Chrysalis in my skin

 

Jung says the female soul

 

Is masculine and the male soul is conceptualized

 

As a woman

 

I am someone else the way Athena

 

Was someone else

 

I power-up, I am

 

A tooth, and am Tarzan

 




Julia Tillinghast