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Daring Betsy By Elisabeth Horan

10/23/2017

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Heavens to Betsy
Remember to curtsy
Not bow, you’re wearing a dress
For God’s sake
Japanese wine is for
Geishas
to serve - Don’t
you dare drink it -
With me watching - Don’t
you dare
to look me in the eyes.


I'll get it out of you
and send a bill for the Kimono, too - Get
your feet in the
fucking shoes
If they get bigger
You'll be an
unfuckable cow - No one wants
a cow to keep
Unless, except to eat
Remember that when you get
thirsty for meat.


And don’t you
ever drink from the cup of
The Man
that keeps you either.


Fill it, wash it, serve it, you don’t deserve it.
Plus, there may be a curious
whiff of poison -


The best thing
Betsy ever did before
she went
to Heaven.


About Elisabeth Horan 

​Elisabeth Horan is a poet, mother, student, lover of kind people and animals, homesteading in Vermont with her tolerant partner and two young sons. She hopes the earth can withstand us and that humans may learn to be more kind to each other and to Mother Nature.
She has recently been featured at Quail Bell Magazine, Dying Dahlia Review and The Murmur House. Elisabeth is a 2018 MFA Candidate at Lindenwood University and teaches at River Valley Community College in New Hampshire. 
Follow her @ehoranpoet.
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