VENUS FLYTRAP
Written by Bella Laia. Performed by Staceyann Chin
A man once told me the only thing soft about me was my ass, and I let him have my whole body, just to show him it wasn’ t true. I blossomed for him and said, See I am a flower.
Then he called me a Venus flytrap. I googled, do Venus flytraps feel soft inside?
but I only saw they can open and close only so many times before they die. Maybe I’ m dead and there’ s no more softness left. My friend told me I was angry and emotionless enough to provoke a man’ s rage. I guess bruises appear on hard bodies too.
No one believes that I’ m soft, and I started to think that they know something about me that I don’ t. Like maybe I’ m a clone of a soft black woman that lost all of her feeling on the way out of the laboratory after being left in the hands of random men. Or maybe they know exactly what I am and they just don’ t give a fuck.
But listen, regardless of what you think you see, I’ m soft, like pillow soft, and when I asked to be treated like a bag of feathers, I wasn’ t expecting to be slept on, or for some man to leave an imprint in the shape of his body so he can come back and