Thanks to an outstandingly positive response to her previous work, we at Woot are happy to welcome again Miss Jessica Albacore, age 17, the Beanhead Coffee Shop’s 2008 Summer Poetry Slam runner-up.

O!

I sing joy!

For in my hand, the Saitek GM3200 Red Laser Gaming Mouse!

On the mouse I adjust DPI, like on myself I

Adjust my being

“Do not hide your pretty face”
“Do not pierce your pretty nose”
“Do not waste your pretty life”

But what is life, if not to waste?

i choose my path, just as I choose to undo the Velcro wire tie on the cord and let it drop like my hair before a man

A man, not boy, not like some giggling cheerleader i

That rattle will never be from a crib in my home, direction hums beneath my Teflon feet.

II.

This Saitek is not wireless. I feel it in

my

heart.

One more betrayal. Lost? Nay, reborn! For red is my gift as a woman, my birthright, and so do I march on, Saitek GM3200 Red Laser Gaming Mouse in hand

proud and

Unstoppable.

Let them judge me who will for I know.

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