It’s Enough 

Noah, she didn’t need to calm down.
You needed to stop being an asshole

Scott,
not all of your exes are crazy.
It’s just that
your patterns don’t change

Stranger in the grocery store
I fucking hated feeling you brush past me
There was plenty of room

Alex,
she ended it.
Stop texting her

Ryan, why do you
refer to women as bitches
when only men are around?

Steven, last night
things started flying.
You didn’t apologize.
You labeled it as ‘something that happens sometimes’

Paul, why is it
that when you get angry
you drive faster and more dangerously
with her in the car?

Stranger at the bar, she told you
she already had a drink
and
a boyfriend

Michael,
your voice rose.
Why?

Justin, were you really offended?
Or were you trying to make her feel guilty
simply for saying ‘not this time’

Kevin, her name is Jessica.
Not “jess with the nice ass ::heart emoji::”

Brian, what’s the point
of ranking women’s bodies?
You’re married

Daniel, you still
owe me forty dollars.
It’s been 3 months.

Mark, she told me that
you apologized but
nothing has changed

Blake, she isn’t too sensitive
She just didn’t think your joke was funny.
Because it wasn’t.

Gabe, you said
“It wasn’t that bad”
It was.
You also said
“It wasn’t like that”
It was. 

Tom,
she’s not being dramatic
for crying 

Derek, why does
your voice get louder
until she becomes silent?

Eric, your timing was interesting.
You reached out
Months later
After she changed her status to ‘in a relationship’

Luis, you were my first love.
I was seventeen.
You were thirty-one.

No.
It’s not all men.
But It’s Enough.
Enough that women nod.
and
Enough that men feel uncomfortable.