from “What Sex Becomes” by Olivia Gatwood

from: "What Sex Becomes"

I felt like a school teacher
who goes home to no children,
a cab driver without a car,

a therapist who cries
in the middle of the night
and can’t figure out why.

Gatwood, Olivia. “What Sex Becomes.” New American Best Friend. Button Poetry, 2017, p. 35.