alexa R. mcginn

Girl [Noun]

 

Girl Math is:

No drug coverage and using your credit card

to pay for birth control.

You pray it doesn’t decline,

Maybe you’ll get 1% cashback this time.

 

Girl Dinner is:

The cheapest thing you can get between shifts

Because all your friends want to roleplay

financial stability this weekend

with fun cocktails.

 

Girl Rage is:

Plain old violent, uncontrollable anger

but make it OPI’s It’s A Girl! Pink.

That way it’s a commodity

to be sold back to you.

Alexa is a writer and theatre artist based in Calgary, AB. Canada. Most of her work are plays about neurodiversity (Celexia and Rave Alien) but sometimes she writes other kinds of words.