"Button," A Poetry Post

Black girls with
big busts and
wide hips need
sweaters made with a
button every
half inch.

Leave a gap
that's an inch wide
and the
breasts
don't
hide--
even with a tank--
they come
outside
and be
saying Hi
to the
passersby.

Leave the button
at the neck alone.
That's a
choke hold.
Make a scoop neck.

Leave the button
at the bottom out.
It'll pop loose
when I swag through.

The goal here
is to wrap up
what I can't warm
in the winter cold and
let go
what I can't hold
when my body moves.

I ain't got no
fancy dreams about
restraints.

No snatch.

I just wanna catch a
cool breeze and
not freeze.

No catch.

-T. D. O. Timothy