Crutches

it's not the crutches we decry it's the need to move forward though we haven't the strength women aren't allowed to need so they develop rituals since we all know working hands idle the devil women aren't supposed to be strong so they develop social smiles and secret drinking problems and female lovers whom they never touch except in dreams men are supposed to be strong so they have heart attacks and develop other women who don't know their weaknesses and hide their fears behind male lovers whom they religiously touch each saturday morning on the basketball court it's considered a sign of health doncha know that they take such good care of their bodies