3 Women, Talking Freely About Not Being Free

Jill said:
"Men always look at me.

It makes me nervous,
They leer like predators.
It's offensive.
There is something very
wrong with them.

Men always look at me."

Ann said:
"Men don't look at me anymore.

When I was a young woman,
they stared all the time.
Once, a man walked into a street sign,
because my complicated beauty had stricken him.
The sign chimed like a gong,
as if to announce my beauty
and his blunder
to the world.

But men don't look at me anymore."


Roseanne said:
"Men have never looked at me.

I don't know why, really.
I could have done things,
I suppose,
to look better.


Men have never looked at me".