Turkey

Written by Anika Nambisan, Grade 9

Image by Mark Beeson

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Their words carved onto me,

Constricted and not free

Treated like a piece of meat

I am not a turkey,

Existing to please,

I belong to only me.

Yet why is my body not my own,

It belongs to those who please,

I want my rights,

I won’t go down without a fight,

The Americans who preach patriotically

Seem to establish a patriarchy

What will they do to me?

I am not a turkey,

Separating myself from the patriarchy

I will break free.