Women's Day 2008

A treat
for Women's Day;
manicures for all the girls.

How nice to have
one's hand
wrapped in another's;
soothing
exfoliating
grooming.

A drive
to the shops after.

And there's a woman
at the robots,
her baby growing on her back.

Her hands hold out
a plastic bowl.

Window wound down,
buffed and filed fingernails
bounce off sunlight
as coins hit plastic
with the
cadence
of
guilt
and
impotence.