Cinderella Women

You know their kind,

They waited and waited

and painted their toes and braided their hair and waxed and buffed and said "no ball until the basement is clean." and no fun until the work is done.

They were all goodness and sweetness and spotless womanhood.

They did all the things that "good girls" were supposed to do, including waiting for the Prince to find the shoe that was the promise of their never ending blissful future.

I waited for no one and did nothing that "good girls" were supposed to do.

I cursed and smoked and danced and wrote things and made my own money, raised my own child, did my own work (even if it wasn't "woman's work")

I didn't care if anyone brought the shoe for me because I was hell-bent on finding my own shoe,

finding my own happiness,

finding my own way

without a Prince to hold me back.