Untitled ("Most definately when you are a girl")

By Jack Joseph Smith

Most definately when you are a girl The sun and the moon won't watch for you Halll a chair around I am just sitting here It is living danger That is what it is And I don't feel him When I milk our only Holstean,you rotten bastards and when the Sun went down across the fence I was the eleventh of time I had lifted my eyes, counting, checking my two kids, back in the farm house shack I tried but the dog could not enter The walk to the breath of the lake, to suck it as a broken lilly, the

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GPT

A rural poem of gendered exposure and danger, where motherhood, livestock, and bodily threat all collapse into one field of feeling.


Claude

The emphasis ('most definitely') insists that being a girl changes everything — motherhood, livestock, bodily threat all arrive differently in a female body. The rural setting makes gendered experience concrete.

The misspelling 'definately' adds syllables and emphasis, as if ordinary spelling could not contain the force of the speaker's insistence.