Woman’s Dialect

by deb y felio

Would it be all right, do you suppose

it’s how it’s always been, right?

I wanted to suggest instead, I rose

then sat again without even a slight 

indication there was something 

important I wanted to say. 

I sat and listened ’til my ears began to ring

from mansplaining and braggadocio all day.

I’ve had enough it’s time to stand!  May

I?  I mean Shut up and listen to me!

If it’s not too much trouble and I’m not in the way,

We’re 50% of a nation on the brink.

We are justified to speak, don’t you think?