"What Do Women Want?" Found online.

[Shardik]

"What Do Women Want?"

I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store
with all those keys glittering in the window,
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.
I want to walk like I'm the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm
your worst fears about me,
to show you how little I care about you
or anything except what
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body
to carry me into this world, through
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,
it'll be the goddamned
dress they bury me in.

Kim Addonizio

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-do-women-want/

Wow. I very rarely share the poems I find online but this one knocked my socks off. It says a lot.

[juno jones]

1. Wow

K&R

There's been some good poetry here lately.

[Berry Cool]

2. Love it.

Red dresses are magical. That's why songs are written about ladies in red.

I think many women have, either in their past or present, a red dress that had a magical effect on themselves and on other people who saw them in it--or at least they felt as if it did. I had one.

K&R