The Women Are Looking Back in Anger
After John Osborne
I do not sew. I write.
And who else do I want to be but me?
And being me is looking back at you
Being us is looking back at all of you.
In anger I am almost 26 like Osborne
Flames in my belly since twelve
Eyes dead sockets at twenty
Every woman is me, forty or sixty.
I cannot gulp the rage into my quiet
or it will gulp me first into its absence.
Who were these morons just now
saying, “Put down your head and sew”?
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Samiksha Ransom
Samiksha Ransom is a writer from Allahabad, India. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Feminism in India, Tint Journal, EKL Review, Live Wire, JAKE, The Friday Poem, The Lake, Kunzum Review, and more. Samiksha was longlisted for the Poet’s in Vogue challenge by the Young Poets Network, UK in 2023. She is on Instagram as @samiksha_ransom and on X as @SamikshaRansom
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After John Osborne
I do not sew. I write.
And who else do I want to be but me?
And being me is looking back at you
Being us is looking back at all of you.
In anger I am almost 26 like Osborne
Flames in my belly since twelve
Eyes dead sockets at twenty
Every woman is me, forty or sixty.
I cannot gulp the rage into my quiet
or it will gulp me first into its absence.
Who were these morons just now
saying, “Put down your head and sew”?
Appears in —
Samiksha Ransom
Samiksha Ransom is a writer from Allahabad, India. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Feminism in India, Tint Journal, EKL Review, Live Wire, JAKE, The Friday Poem, The Lake, Kunzum Review, and more. Samiksha was longlisted for the Poet’s in Vogue challenge by the Young Poets Network, UK in 2023. She is on Instagram as @samiksha_ransom and on X as @SamikshaRansom
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