around your shoulders
Know you are important
Know you are important
wear that cow mask
Dodge the grabbing hand
Dodge the grabbing hand
the pull on your blouse
your dupatta
your dupatta
your bag
Protest a curfew
Protest a curfew
police baton charge
Avoid Holi crowds
Avoid Holi crowds
hit the men groping
your buttock
your buttock
your breast
Name it sexual assault
Name it sexual assault
Name male bullies
Protest putrid police
Protest putrid police
Unite as stalwart women
march together
march together
shoulder to shoulder
© Lavinia Kumar
Lavinia Kumar has a new poetry book, The Celtic Fisherman’s Wife: A Druid Life, it can be found on Amazon (US & UK).
