Paperweight Poetry

Here's to being a single virgin and buying lingerie, I did it for myself, I did it for the familiar feeling of freshly shaven legs between the sheets, extensions of the moon's light tucked between the black wuthering silk of the sky. Here's to my mother condemning me for the satin g-string and here's to me wearing it anyways, it's for the lonely nights and the celebrating with my friends nights. Here's to me wearing a bustier and garters and eating not one but two pints of icecream as I binge watch Game of Thrones. Here's to loud women, quiet women, single and taken women, black, Latina, native, and white, here's to all women, women who wear lingerie and those who do not, and here's to not giving a fuck. -anna sluder