Soft Ladies

The soft ladies refuse to learn
that animals and infants
don’t fucking speak English
and that prodding them actionlessly
will accomplish nothing.

The soft ladies,
somewhere inside of their meaning-well
but decaying minds know this,
and are only really talking
to passerbys hoping that they
will take action in the face
of their failures.

This is why they talk
to animals and infants,
uselessly trying
to force them into
some desired action.