Revolt

by Kimberly Wilder

The dancer exits stage left - 
lights and smokes her last cigarette, 

contemplates a dystopian privileged society 
lacking empathetic decency 

with its monsters - 
dressed as men 

casting brutal judgments:
devastating miscarriages of justice. 

The dancer enters stage left - 
her dance a delicate revolt 

with a bold internal vow: 
never let the bastards win.