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Parting Ways with Her Long-Term Rental Agreement

Jeannie E. Roberts · Poetry · October 2026
Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.
—The Secret Lives of Dresses by Erin McKean

It never sat well
the way gas station attendants
and other random men
invaded the mother’s personal space.
As they approached her
the daughter inside the car
noticed how she allowed it.
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