Flappers were good girls; formerly Edwardians,
even Victorian, suddenly modern; driving cars
& smoking & drinking & doing the Charleston
to ragtime Jazz; gong where there didn't belong
but making their way to the center
of the dance floor; kicking up their Cuban heels
& showing off their ankles before *******
were invented; liberated gals wearing bloomers
or nothing underneath their beads & sequence;
Gibson girls became flappers & the Gilded Age
became ******* long before ******* was a thing;
Strippers coming off the circus runway
to dance for drunks & gangsters who wanted
to see more & more skin in every way
until one day Carol Doda took it all off
after decades of naked ladies stepping into
the limelight & becoming stars in their own right;
but **** women are no more, it's just not allowed;
women are accusing men of having libidos
they can't control; the women pretending vaginas
have a mind of their own