Please don't touch me

 

I’ll stand

two feet away from you

when you go

after coming up just to see my show

and tell you “safe trip”

and not mean it

and say nothing in return

when you say “I love you”

 

because when I was a little girl

you were so afraid of me

that you called the police

to take me away from you

and they took me

to a place that smelled like medicine and looked like

a prison

and I wept

but no one sent me home.

Reviews

[Antonio Aguilar]

A pretty good poem; you can catch the speakers back story very well.