Women's Studies Homework

I have to bite bottle caps
to gag myself
from loudly sobbing
when I work
on my Women's Studies homework
and on my feminist project
and I see flashes of statistics
of two year old girls
molested in sea-world bathroom stalls
and women who broke
when they saw their size 24 heroes
depicted as size double zero
because there'd be no way they'd be pretty otherwise
and I have so many doubts
swirling around my brain
that my complaints
are just complaints
and I shouldn't give them a voice
as loud as I now want to scream
but I need to
dear self remember this
I need to
I need to do this
I need to follow through