Phenomenal Woman: A Parallel and Reflection to Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman”
phenomenal woman, your smile is my favorite thing it brightens up my day despite your annoying explanations “I have to do this. I have to do that.” your lips are pretty as much as they move your shoulders broad too your personality bright like the sun behind clouds when I look at you. I hate him though I do not know his name nor where he comes from drove up in his car telling us to get in it he banters and shouts: a complete stranger his face, the gears turning with gross intention and he didn’t care that I was with you indulging in harmless activity such as beauty and self esteem he shouted to you and yet I’m the one shaking I can’t eat now or never again after his invocations bystanders near yet never witnessing; never at the scene this world does not seem to care for the phenomenon that is a woman his shouts carved into me like a marking into a tree a tree can die from that if you didn’t know but you don’t know do you? you have no idea the pain, the anger, the fear the gutting echo of your mannish voice banging in my head like an ominous drum; that her sister is a writer, a poet who internalizes your repulsivity on paper. you look at us like opportunities like objects until our objections become weaponry. you want a mouth that’s malleable for you to bend or break. you love your car more than yourself which is dangerously obvious. the things you said to her, this phenomenal woman, who cares, when you see curves; who objects, when you see object; who builds what guys like you break; you cut into the person you weren’t trying to win. and it wasn’t even to me it was to her my phenomenal woman of a sister.
My name is Madison Livingston. I am a first year at Cal State University of Fullerton and I am majoring in English and plan on double majoring in Business as well.
I am an avid reader and writer, and I’ve played the piano for ten years. I love talking to people and getting to know their passions. I like to play video games and play volleyball in my spare time. I love to learn as much as I can and am currently in the process of writing a book.