Bitch
Kaylani Fuller

I'll proudly say I'm a bitch
With my teeth snarling and a low rumble in my throat
The sharp pierce of my bark penetrating the membrane in your ear
I’m a bitch! I’m a bitch! I’m a bitch!
Scampering, with clumsy ankles wild, I’ll throw my neck back with a broken spine
Howling at the white bulging eye that turns away from me

One time a boy tried to domesticate me
He threw my limbs across the room slamming my body on marble countertops
I cried because my bones ached and until then I never knew the meaning of house broken

But now I know the meaning of bitch

I took his flesh in my mouth
K9s sinking and severing soft tissue
A bitch can crush bones with her teeth
And make them into shattered splitters