Billie Eilish

after Yona Wallach

hid her curves
under long baggy shirts
countering the sexualizing
gaze of the public
with masculinity

when did masculinity
on a woman
decrease her sexual worth?

see me for my eyes,
not my breasts.

listen to my words
not my ass
as it pounds
against your lap.

Sammie Lee Wilhoit is a queer genderfluid 22-year-old Professional Writing major attending Champlain College. Their poetry explores their gender and sexual identity as well as the ways that they connect with others. They are a former writer for Glitter Magazine. Their work has been published in Cotyledon, Sapphic Writers Online, Saturnalia, Olivetree Review, The Empty Magazine, The Clementine Zine, and In Parentheses. Their Instagram is @sammiewilhoit, Twitter is @exhaletheatre, and their website is https://sammieleewilhoit.wordpress.com/.