Original Art and Poetry by Ingrid H. Turner
 
"Bitch"
 
“Bitch”
noun.
 
"A spiteful, unpleasant, or disliked woman."
 
and:
 
"A female dog, wolf, fox, or otter."
 
Yes, this bitch is spiteful
because she has had 
 
countless
assassination attempts
 
on her love 
on her power 
on her prowess 
on her care. 
 
This bitch is unpleasant  
 
having been 
 
kicked like a dog
feared like a wolf
hunted like a fox 
beaten like an otter.
 
This bitch is 
 
disliked by the human who 
would take her love for granted 
 
sneered at by the human who 
would belittle her as to control her 
 
raged at by the human who 
would throw rocks to stop her
 
begged for by the human who
cannot contain her. 
 
This bitch is standing up for her capacity to
 
unconditionally love you, and
walk the hell away from you.  
 
This bitch is standing up
raising her fist up 
 
she is pumping her power 
into the atmosphere 
 
and for once you
you cannot stop her. 
 
This bitch is not 
going to be still 
for you to
 
belittle 
rape
murder her
 
with your generations of entitlement. 
 
This bitch will keep caring for 
a world she was born to 
 
mother 
by first 
 
caring for 
herself. 
 
She will 
 
stomp and
scream
 
she will 
 
march and 
fight. 
 
What this bitch will not do is 
 
beg
bleed
 
open her legs 
 
cry
or
die 
 
at the behest of a millennia. 
 
This bitch
has reached
 
the end 
of the line.