TW: CSA and physical abuse
What do you call a man
Whose knee you sit upon
and bend over.
Who you play house with.
Never asking why.
Always doing what he says
When he says
Exactly how he says it.
There’s a reason “obey” ends in parted lips.
Adam Mitchel is an emerging poet, writer, and artist. His work has previously been seen in Overgrowth Press. He spent the first twenty years of his life in an isolated, fundamentalist cult in Nebraska. He now lives in Chicago with his husband and their five cats.