limits past limits

Would would it mean to you
    to leave all this behind? and
        could you just pull on your shoes,
            BOB bag in hand, or
                just a Jansport, just
                    whatever you can carry?
Women do it every day, you know?
    Just leave?

But — could you? and would you? and would you
even know how to make it out there on your own?
    know how to

• change your oil?
• change the tires?
• change a lightbulb?

            I  know   nothing.  I
            am   empty,  pure   &
            free  —  a  fresh-cut
            flower  kept, a  bowl
            to  be  filled  up, &
            I am dying just to be
            a  mother, just  a  —